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Definition of nock : 1. A notch.
2. The upper fore corner of a boom sail or of a trysail.
3. To notch; to fit to the string, as an arrow; to string, as a bow.

Synonyms:

label, strike off, distinguish, check off, rack up, brand, make, stigmatise, strike out, mark off, set, tally, pit, note, scar, cross out, notice, pock, score, tag, check, hit, commemorate, punctuate, stigmatize, tick off, differentiate, cross off, mark, tick, grade, seduce, denounce

Usage examples:

• By Albert Jay Nock. - "The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story", Various.
• And without them the Great Peace breaks like a rotten arrow where the war- head drops and the feathers fall from the unbound nock. - "The Reckoning", Robert W. Chambers.
• Forsooth she had her bended bow in hand; but let alone that the knight was over- near to her that she might get a shaft out of her quiver and nock it, ere he should run in on her, and let alone also that he was byrnied, she scarce deemed that it behoved her to slay or wound the man because she would be quit of him. - "The Water of the Wondrous Isles", William Morris.