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   Flock

   /fläk/

   

   noun

   • 1. a number of birds of one kind feeding, resting, or traveling together: "a flock of gulls" Similar groupflightcongregation
   • ▪ a number of domestic animals, especially sheep, goats, or geese, that are kept together: "a flock of sheep" Similar herddrovefold
   • ▪ large crowds of people: "flocks of young people hung around at twilight" Similar crowdthronghordemobrabblelarge numbermassmultitudehostarmypackswarmseastreamtroupepresscrushfloodcollectioncompanygatheringassemblyassemblageinformal:gaggleshowerarchaic:rout
   • ▪ a group of children or students in someone's charge.
   • ▪ a Christian congregation or body of believers, especially one under the charge of a particular minister: "Thomas addressed his flock"

   verb

   • 1. congregate or mass in a flock or large group: "students flocked to spring break sites"

   Word Origin Old Englishflocc, of unknown origin. The original sense was ‘a band or body of people’: this became obsolete, but has been reintroduced as a transferred use of the sense ‘a number of animals kept together’.

   Scrabble Points: 14

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   • L

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   • O

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   • C

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   • K

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