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Hock-(dictionary)

Hock- (iou)



Hock- combining form. Now chiefly Hist. Also as separate word. ME.
[Origin unkn.]
Designating days of or events connected with the beginning of the second week after Easter, formerly important for the payment of rents etc., the collection of money (often by roughly humorous methods) for parish purposes, and as the beginning of the summer half of the rural year.
Hock-day the second Tuesday after Easter Sunday; in pl. also, the second Monday and Tuesday after Easter Sunday. Hock Monday the second Monday after Easter Sunday. Hock-money money collected for parish purposes during Hocktide. Hocktide the period comprising the second Monday and Tuesday after Easter Sunday. Hock Tuesday the second Tuesday after Easter Sunday.