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Definition of Hocktide in English: Hocktidenoun ˈhɒktʌɪd (in England) a religious festival formerly kept on the second Monday and Tuesday after Easter, during which, in pre-Reformation times, money was raised for Church and parish purposes. Example sentencesExamples - On the second Tuesday after Easter, the Hocktide Court is called in the town hall while two ‘Tutti-Men’ collect fishing right fines from the residents of the High Street.
- Finally the events of the day are rounded off with a traditional Tutti-Supper at the Corn Exchange and the drinking of the Hocktide Punch.
- The festival begins when the town crier blows his horn and summons the Hocktide Court to the town hall.
- The town has its own town council and Mayor and Hungerford's Hocktide ceremonies take place on the second Tuesday after Easter, more usually known as Tutti-day when the Hocktide Court or Commoners Court is held in the town hall.
- It sounded for all the world like a large Christmas beetle, but seeing Easter's been and gone and we're heading for Hocktide, this made no sense, so I went to investigate.
- A Hocktide Lunch is served to more than 180 commoners and their guests and friends in the Corn Exchange.
- So, in order to escape from actually working, I decided to learn a bit more about Hocktide, and came upon the delightful Beerfordbury Bugle!
- Easter lasted a full 10 days until the festival of Hocktide.
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