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Laverok, n. Also: laverock, (laveracke,) lawerok, laferok; lav-, law-, laiv-, leavro(c)k(e, levrok. [ME. laverok (14th c.), laveroc (15th c.), laverke (13th c.), OE. láferce older láwerce, láuricæ, lǽwerce: cf. Laveirk and Lark.] The skylark.(a) a1500 Henr. Twa Mys 97 (Asl.).
In the morning or the lauerok sang a1500 Sir Eger in Furnivall Percy Folio I. 383.
The throstlecock, the nightingale, The laueracke 1505 Treas. Acc. III. 116.
To ij pokis to put laverokis in, ij s. viij d. 1530 Lynd. Test. Pap. 93.
Scho wald … Pew lyk the gled, and chant lyke the lauerok 1549 Compl. 39/20.
The lauerok maid melody vp hie in the skyis 1551 Acts II. 484/1.
The dosane of lauerokis and vthers small birdis … iiij d. 1553 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 185.
Lawerokis 1595 Duncan App. Etym.
Cassita, alauda, a laueroke 1605 Wedderb. Compt Bk. 56.
Ane caidge of weir for a laverok 1626 Glasg. Univ. Mun. III. 524.
Laverokis, iij s. ij d. 1687 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. XIII. 177.
James Buchane had no tytle to sett that roome, for if it should lye and breed laverocks he should have nothing to doe with it that yeir 1692 Foulis Acc. Bk. 144.
For 3 duz[e]n laverocks(b) ?1438 Alex. i. 368.
It semis thay sparhalkis war, And we lawrokis that durst bot dar a1568 Bann. MS. 156 a/24.
I saw ane lavrock slay ane ox Richt he vp in ȝone stak a1628 Carmichael Prov. No. 1790.
Ye live on love as lavroks dois on leiks 1630 Dundonald Par. Rec. 304.
The lavroks were singing before they shed 1681 Cleland 105.
[He] fostred lavrocks, doves, and bees, To keep him companie at home(c) 1596 Dalr. I. 40/6.
Of pertrikis in sum cuntreyes ar gret abundance, bot of laferokis ouer al far gretter, in sa far that xii for a frenche sous thay commounlie sell(d) 1580-92 James VI Lusus R. 24.
As mauuisis of kynde are geuin to sing, & laiurokkis after Candlemess to spring

b. Attrib. with carne, hall, net, speit (= spit) and in laverock-man (= laveirkman, Laveirk n.).(1) 1537 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III. 17.
Fra that to a carn callit the Leurok carn upon the north side of the roof of the Bog hill 1551 Ib. 21.
Laverok carne 1632 Lanark B. Rec. 324.
Passand … to the southwest nuik of the Laverokhall and yaird(2) 1506 Treas. Acc. III. 206.
For lavrok nettis to the King, viij s. 1640 Bk. Carlaverock II. 502.
More, a great loke and a leauroke net 1643 Glasg. Univ. Mun. III. 536.
Ane lavrock speit, … ane droping pann(3) 1581 Treas. Acc. MS. 71² b.
His hienes laverock man