1. A group of birds
   "A flock of geese flew overhead in a V formation"
    
2. A group of sheep or goats
   "The shepherd guided his flock to greener pastures";
   - fold
    
3. A church congregation guided by a pastor
   "The pastor tended to the spiritual needs of his flock"
    
4. An orderly crowd
   "a flock of children";
   - troop
    
5. (often followed by ‘of’) a large number, amount or extent
   "a flock of letters";
   - batch, deal, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle [archaic], mountain, muckle, passel [US], peck, pile [informal], plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack [informal], tidy sum, wad, bunch [informal], scad [N. Amer, informal]
    
6. Coarse tufts of wool or cotton used in bedding
   "The old mattress was stuffed with flock, making it lumpy and uncomfortable"

1. Move as a crowd or in a group
   "Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears"
    
2. Come together as in a cluster or flock
   "Birds flocked together before migration";
   - cluster, constellate, clump

Sounds like: flex, flelock

Derived forms: flocks, flocked, flocking

Type of: animal group, assemble, congregation, crowd, faithful, fold, foregather [formal], forgather, gather, go, large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity, locomote, meet, move, travel

Encyclopedia: Flock, Robert