I. ˈpäk noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English pokke, from Old English pocc; akin to Middle Low German & Middle Dutch pocke pock, German dialect pfoche pock, Latin bucca cheek, mouth
1.
a. : a pustule on the surface of the body in smallpox and other eruptive diseases ; also : a spot like such a pustule
b. : hole
guiding the car around another pock in the road — Peter De Vries
his eyes wide pocks of fear in a white face — Joseph Hilton
2. chiefly dialect : pox
II. transitive verb
( -ed/-ing/-s )
: to mark with or as if with pocks : pit
the rains of twenty centuries had pocked that pure and haughty face — Compton Mackenzie
the hull was pocked with dents — Frank Schreider
III.
chiefly dialect
variant of poke 1a(1) I