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Definition of Flock
Flock
A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl.

A Christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge.

To gather in companies or crowds.

To flock to; to crowd.

A lock of wool or hair.

Woolen or cotton refuse (sing. / pl.), old rags, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture.

Very fine, sifted, woolen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, used as a coating for wall paper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fiber used for a similar purpose.

To coat with flock, as wall paper; to roughen the surface of (as glass) so as to give an appearance of being covered with fine flock.

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In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
Albert Einstein

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Winston Churchill

Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.
Miguel De Cervantes

It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.
Ovid

Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.
Ross Perot

I am only a sparrow amongst a great flock of sparrows.
Evita Peron

When someone comes along and expresses him or herself as freely as they think, people flock to it. They enjoy it.
Joe Rogan

We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a shot from the bumper of a car and it's going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment.
Joel Coen

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
Tacitus

I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
Oliver Cromwell



Flock Translations
flock in Afrikaans is trop, kudde
flock in Dutch is roedel, kudde
flock in French is troupeau
flock in German is Herde
flock in Italian is mandria
flock in Latin is caterva
flock in Norwegian is flokk, flokkes, ulldott
flock in Portuguese is rebanho
flock in Spanish is reba o, bandada
flock in Swedish is hjord, flock, tapp, skocka sig


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