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Hock Tuesday Obs. exc. Hist.
Also 5–6 hok(e.
The Tuesday in Hocktide; Hock-day. Also called binding-Tuesday (dies Martis ligatoria): see binding vbl. n. 6.
c1250Reg. Salop Abbey No. 179 Unum denarium coquinæ prænominati conventus die qui vulgariter dicitur Hoketysday persolvere. Ibid. No. 178 B, In die Hoketisday. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxliv. (1482) 301 On saynt Markes day that was that tyme hoketewysday, he toke his leue. 1575Laneham Let. (1871) 26 margin, Hok Tuisday by the Couentree men. 1607Cowell Interpr., Hoke⁓day, otherwise called Hock-Tuesday. 1656Dugdale Warwicksh. (1730) 249/2 Hither came the Coventre men [in 1575], and acted the antient Play, long since used in that City, called Hocks tuesday, setting forth the destruction of the Danes in King Ethelred's time. 1777Brand Pop. Antiq. (1870) I. 105 note, Hoke Monday was for the men, and Hock Tuesday for the women. On both days the men and women, alternately, with great merriment intercepted the public roads with ropes, and pulled passengers to them, from whom they exacted money to be laid out in pious uses. |