Sc. Also 6 wyrok, virrok, 9 weerock. [a. early Flem. weerooghe ‘chalaza, chalazion’ (Kilian), f. weer callosity (see WARRE) + ooghe EYE sb.1] A corn on the foot. Also attrib.
1500–20. Dunbar, Poems, xxviii. 18. A flyrok, That hes vpoun his feit a wyrok. Ibid., lx. 54. With his wawill-feitt and virrok taiss.
1801. Leyden, Compl. Scot., Gloss. 380. Virrok [in Dunbar] … signifies a corn, or bony excrescence on the feet. It is in common use, and pronounced wirrok.
1839. W. McDowall, Poems, 154 (E.D.D.). Mary Hay, Wha had a weerock on each tae As big’s a plum.
