local. Also -ick. [f. WILL sb.3 + -OCK. Cf. etym. of guillem, guillemot.] The GUILLEMOT; also, the puffin and the razor-bill.

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1631.  Pellham, Gods Power, 3. We found abundance of Willocks egges; (which is a Fowle about the bignesse of a Ducke).

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1635.  Voy. Foxe & James to N. W. (Hakluyt Soc.), I. 168. Going to kill willicks.

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1802.  Montagu, Ornith. Dict., s.v. Puffin, At Dover, this, as well as the Razorbill, is indiscriminately called Willock.

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1855.  Kingsley, Glaucus, 2. Your boys … endanger your personal safety, by blazing away at innocent gulls and willocks.

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1859.  [see GUILLEMOT].

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