pock

Etymology

From Middle English pok, from Old English poc, pocc (“pock; pustule; ulcer”), from Proto-West Germanic *pokk, from Proto-Germanic *pukkaz, *pukkǭ (“pock; swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew-, *bʰew- (“to grow; swell”). Cognate with Dutch pok (“pock”), Low German Pocke (“pock”), German Pocke (“pock”).

noun

1. A pus-filled swelling on the surface on the skin caused by an eruptive disease.
2. Any pit, especially one formed as a scar

verb

1. To scar or mark with pits
   Just next door, at Al Azhar University, a rocket mangled the protective metal bars as it crashed through the windows of the president’s office this month, destroying his desk and pocking his walls with shrapnel. February 23, 2007, Greg Myre, “Palestinian Universities Dragged Into Factional Clashes”, in New York Times