Clues for the word "FLOCK"
We've had 24 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 33 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on August 18, 2026.
Definition of flock
- n. - 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.
- n. - A Christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge.
- v. i. - To gather in companies or crowds.
- v. t. - To flock to; to crowd.
- n. - A lock of wool or hair.
- n. - Woolen or cotton refuse (sing. / pl.), old rags, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture.
- sing. / pl. - 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.
- v. t. - 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.
Referring Clues
- Flying group
- Group watched by Little Bo Peep
- Congregation
- Shepherd's group
- Shepherd's charge
- With 43-Across, Chemical Brothers song about the sounds that make all the sheep swoon?
- Churchgoers
- Ovine bunch
- Large group
- Multitude
- Group of sheep
- The sheep a fathead has to make secure?
- Group of misguided folk going round a local centre
- Fat-headed rugby player in a group
- Parishioners come together
- A number of birds often found on restaurant walls?
- One fat-headed rugby forward, or a group
- Group of sheep or birds
- Gather
- Church members, collectively
- Herd
- The sheep a fathead has to make secure?
- Gathering of 1-Down, like that found in the center of this puzzle
- Bird herd
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - August 18, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - June 30, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 06, 2023
- LA Times - May 17, 2023
- New York Times - November 29, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 09, 2022
- Mirror Quick - November 13, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 05, 2017
- LA Times - August 02, 2017
- Mirror Quick - July 29, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 01, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 23, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 26, 2016
- LA Times - May 07, 2015
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - January 02, 2015
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - November 07, 2013
- Universal - April 22, 2013
- Universal - February 14, 2013
- Guardian Cryptic - November 19, 2012
- Netword - October 21, 2012
- Guardian Cryptic - October 19, 2012
- New York Times - October 09, 2011
- LA Times - May 31, 2011
- Onion A.V. Club - November 24, 2010
- Guardian Quick - May 10, 2010
- Universal - December 16, 2009
- New York Times - May 19, 2008
- Guardian Quick - February 04, 2008
- Guardian Quick - January 01, 2007
- New York Sun - July 17, 2006
- And in 3 more crossword puzzles...