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   flock

   /flɒk/

   noun

   • 1. a number of birds of one kind feeding, resting, or travelling 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
   • ▪ a large number or crowd of people: "a flock of paparazzi tailed them all over London" Similar crowdthronghordemobrabblelarge numbermassmultitudehostarmypackswarmseastreamtroupepresscrushfloodcollectioncompanygatheringassemblyassemblageinformal:gaggleshowerarchaic:rout
   • ▪ a group of children or pupils 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. (of birds) congregate in a flock: "sandgrouse are liable to flock with other species"
   • ▪ move or go together in a crowd: "tourists flock to Oxford in their thousands" Similar gathercollectcongregateassemblecome togetherget togetherconvergeconvenerallyrendezvousmustermeetmassamasscrowdthrongclusterherdgroupbunchswarmhuddlemillrare:foregatherstreamgo in large numbersswarmsurgeseethespillcrowdherdtroop

   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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