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hattock dial.
Also haddock, huttock.
[app. a dim. of hat n.: see -ock.]
†1. A little hat. Sc. Obs.
1501Douglas Pal. Hon. ii. 153 And Quintine with ane huttok on his heid. 1662in Pitcairn Crim. Trials III. 604 (Isobel Gowdie's Confession) I haid a little horse, and wold say ‘Horse and Hattock, in Divellis name!’ And than we vold flie away, quhair ve vold. a1800Jamie Telfer in Scott Bl. Dwarf viii, Now horse and hattock speedilie They that winna ride for Telfer's kye, Let them never look in the face o' me. 1828Scott F.M. Perth vii, Get your boots and your beasts—horse and hattock, I say.
2. a. A shock of standing sheaves of corn, the tops of which are protected by two sheaves laid along them with their bottoms in contact in the centre, and their heads slanting downwards, so as to carry off rain. b. The two covering sheaves themselves, called also in various districts headsheaves and hoods. (This is prob., from the etymology, the earlier sense.) dial.
1674Ray N.C. Words 24 Hattock, a Shock containing 12 Sheaves of Corn. 1763R. Burn Eccl. Law II. 406 It [rape-seed] is never bound up in sheaves, or made into hattocks. 1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. (1807) II. 280 The grain..is mostly set up into what are provincially termed stooks, stouks, shocks, or hattocks. 1846Brockett's N.C. Gloss. (ed. 3) I. 234 The huttock consists of ten sheaves of corn, set two and two upright, with two hoods, one at each end to cover them. 1849Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. X. i. 133 The wheat is..immediately put into small ‘haddocks’ or ‘mows’. 1879G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., Hattocks, sheaves of corn inverted over the ‘mow’ to protect it from wet. The two end sheaves of the ‘mow’, which consists of eight sheaves, are taken as hattocks for the remaining six. 1893Northumbld. Gloss., Huttock. |