Usually means: Notch at arrow's rear end.
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  1. nock: Merriam-Webster
  2. nock: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nock: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nock: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nock: Vocabulary.com
  6. Nock, nock: Wordnik
  7. Nock, nock: Wiktionary
  8. nock: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. nock: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. nock: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Nock, nock: Dictionary.com
  12. nock: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Nock (arrow), Nock: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Nock: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. nock: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. nock: Rhymezone
  17. Nock: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. nock: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. nock: FreeDictionary.org
  20. nock: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. nock: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. nock: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  2. NOCK: Acronym Finder

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  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. nock, nock: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Nock: Urban Dictionary

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  2. Nock: Sports Definitions

(Note: See nocked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (nock)

noun:  Either of the two grooves in a bow that hold the bowstring.
noun:  (archery) The notch at the rear of an arrow that fits on the bowstring.
noun:  (nautical) The upper fore corner of a boom sail or trysail.
verb:  (transitive) To fit (an arrow) against the bowstring of a bow or crossbow. (See also notch (verb).)
verb:  (transitive) To cut a nock in (usually in an arrow's base or the tips of a bow).
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Misspelling of knock. [An abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood.]

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