SMOCK

n. a. v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A woman's under-garment; a shift; a chemise. In her smock, with head and foot all bare. Chaucer.

2.
n.

A blouse; a smoock frock. Carlyle.

3.
a.

Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock; hence, of or pertaining to a woman. Smock mill, a windmill of which only the cap turns round to meet the wind, in distinction from a post mill, whose whole building turns on a post. -- Smock race, a race run by women for the prize of a smock. [Prov. Eng.]

4.
v.

To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock. Tennyson.