Hocktide
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of Hocktide
C15: from hock-, hoke- (of unknown origin) + tide 1
Example Sentences
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Then came the diversions of Hocktide, on the second Monday and Tuesday after Easter, when the men and women intercepted the public on alternate days with ropes, and boldly exacted money for pious purposes.
From English Villages by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
We have compounds of day in Halliday or Holiday, Hay-day, for high day, Loveday, a day appointed for reconciliations, and Hockaday, for a child born during Hocktide, which begins on the 15th day after Easter.
From The Romance of Names by Weekley, Ernest
The Hocktide play was of a different character, the actors being persons of inferior degree, and their habits the better fitted for the occasion, the more incongruous and ridiculous that they were in themselves.
From Kenilworth by Scott, Walter, Sir
There was a Hocktide play, which was acted before Queen Elizabeth, and caused her much amusement.
From English Villages by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
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