Small rocks or stones, particularly those found along the bottom of a stream or riverbed.
From Scottish and Northern English dialect 'dornock' or 'dornach,' possibly from Old Norse 'dorna' (pebble) combined with diminutive suffix '-ock,' reflecting geological terminology in British regions.
This wonderfully obscure word shows how specific geological features get their own local names—what one region calls a pebble, another calls a dornock, revealing how communities develop specialized vocabulary for their physical environment.
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