roc
noun
a bird of enormous size and strength.
roc
American
[rok]
/ rɒk /
noun
Arabian Mythology.
ROC
1
British
abbreviation
roc
2
British
/ rɒk /
noun
Etymology
Origin of roc
1570–80; < Arabic rukhkh, probably < Persian rukh; see rook 2
Example Sentences
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The bright young men hit on the roc, huge bird that took Sindbad's baggy pants in its beak and carried him across mountains to drop him into a gully full of diamonds.
From Time Magazine Archive
It depicts a conversation between two birds, one a giant roc that soars over the earth, with "the blue sky on its back," and the other a timid sparrow "scared stiff" in his bush.
From Time Magazine Archive
The roc replies angrily: Stop your windy nonsense!
From Time Magazine Archive
But certainly the Arabian roc, which carried off elephants for its nestlings as an eagle rapes a mouse, would shy from the monstrous thing U. S. engineers propose to build for $5,000,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
He too\ the mountain roc\ to carve into inking stones.
From "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin
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