Skip to main content

Diigo Home

A.Word.A.Day -- dornick - The Diigo Meta page

wordsmith.org/dornick.html - Cached - Annotated View

Jimbox 's personal annotations on this page

jimbox
Jimbox bookmarked on 2008-06-12 words definitions

  • dornick (DOR-nik) noun


    1. A piece of rock small enough to throw.

    [From Irish dornog (small stone, literally fistful).]


    2. Stout linen.

    [After Doornik, the name of a Flemish town where the cloth
    was first manufactured.]

This link has been bookmarked by 1 people . It was first bookmarked on 12 Jun 2008, by Jimbox.

  • 12 Jun 08

    • dornick (DOR-nik) noun


      1. A piece of rock small enough to throw.

      [From Irish dornog (small stone, literally fistful).]


      2. Stout linen.

      [After Doornik, the name of a Flemish town where the cloth
      was first manufactured.]