Middle English Dictionary Entry
họ̄k(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | họ̄k(e n. Also hoc(e, hokke, hock(e, (errors) hacke, hox. |
| Etymology | ?OE *hōc laughter, mockery; cp. OE hocor & OHG huoh. Vowel shortening is indicated in many of the forms. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The second Monday and Tuesday (?also Wednesday) after Easter, a period during which merrymakers stopped travelers on the roads and exacted contributions; ~ tide; (b) ~ dai, Hock Tuesday; -- also as surn.; ~ tiuesdai, Hock Tuesday; ~ mondai, Hock Monday; ~ wednesdai; (c) ~ moneie, exactions collected in hocktide [according to Brand's Antiquities, traditionally on Monday by men, on Tuesday by women]; ~ pot, ?a pot used for collecting contributions at Hocktide [also cp. hoche-pot]; ~ rop, ?a rope used at Hocktide for stopping travelers; ~ silver, a rent paid at Hocktide.
Associated quotations
a
- (1349) Acc.St.Michael Bath in SANHS 231 : Receperunt de vj s., receptis de Rogero Clyware pro tribus terminis, bid. de terminis Hock', Nativitate S[anc]ti Johannis Bapt[isti], et S[anc]ti Michaelis.
- (1371) Acc.St.Michael Bath in SANHS 2310 : De iii d. de redditu j olle enee locate a termino Hokke usque ad festum Sancti Michaelis.
- (1396) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)6.136 : [Certain hundred-courts held at Kynewardeston from] Hock [until All Saints last].
- (1449) Acc.St.Mary Thame in BBOAJ 873 : To Wyllya Karpentyr at hocketyde, xiii s. iiij d.
- (1469-70) Acc.St.Michael Oxf.in OAST 7872 : Item apud hoctyde, xv s.
b
- (c1175) *Cart.Caen [OD col.] (Paris Lat.5650)lf.54b (DuC.) : Omnes bubulci..a Hocedei usque ad Augustum habebunt de bidentibus lac mane diebus Dominicis.
- (1209) Pipe R.Winch74/56 : j marlatori de Hockedai usque festum Sancti Petri ad Vincula, ij s.
- (1246) Select Pleas Manor.in Seld.Soc.26 : Placita Maneriorum Beccens' in Anglia de termino de Hokeday.
- (1248) Rec.Crondal in Hamp.RS 353 : Et de iiij s. de tithinga de Crundall pro simili de termino de la hackeday et Sancti Martini.
- c1250 *Reg.Salop Abbey No.179 [OD col.] : Unum denarium coquinæ prænominati conventus die qui vulgariter dicitur Hoketysday persolvere.
- (1267) Acc.Wellingborough in North.RS 86 : A festo sancti michaelis usque hokeday.
- (1270) Close R.Hen.III170 : Willelmus Hokeday.
- (1289) in Madox Form.Angl.(1702)225 : Die Martis proxima post quindenam Paschæ quæ vocatur la Hockeday.
- (1296) Sub.R.Sus.in Sus.RS 1051 : Henr' Hokedey.
- (1320) Doc.Littleport in Seld.Soc.4129 : Quod omnes subscripti faleaverunt lesch' ante le Hokeday contra ordinacionem.
- (1322-3) Acc.Wellingborough in North.RS 8125 : In conductione vnius garcionis..vsque diem martis vocatum le hokeday.
- (1336) Pat.R.Edw.III219 : Thomas Hokkedey.
- (1347) Doc.in HMC Var.Col.4109 : Die Domin.prox.ante diem Martis que vocatur le Hokkeday.
- (1396-7) Acc.Abingdon in Camd.n.s.5165 : In wastell' pro Conuentu ad Hockeday.
- (1398) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)6.178 : [On the Tuesday in the Quindene of Easter called] Hokday.
- a1400 Cust.Rent in OSSLH 2105 fn. : [A rent paid] ad husteng' ville [at Michaelmas] et similiter ad alium terminum ad diem qui vocatur hoxtiwesda.
- (1445) Doc.in HMC Rep.5 App.528 : [From money collected by men and women on] Hokke Day [29 s. 11 d.].
- c1450(c1425) Brut-1419 (Cmb Kk.1.12)382/10 : On Saint Markez day, þat was þat tyme Hocwedynesday.
- c1450(c1430) Brut-1430 (Glb E.8:Kingsf.)303 : The second day aftur seint Markis day that tho was Hoktewisday oure kynge come..vnto seint poulis.
- (1455-56) Acc.St.Margaret Southwark in BMag.32489, 493 : Gaderyd vpon Ester Monday at the chirche dorre, v s.; also gaderyd vpon Hocke Tewisday, v s..., on Hokmunday by the men, v s.
- (1458) Doc.in HMC Rep.5 App.522 : Paid in expences of Thomas Caxtone and his horse, beyng here 2 dayis abowte the townys nethis on Hoke Monday 8 d.
- (1462) Paston (Gairdner)4.39 : I have ben at Wetyng and there hald the court and lete on Hokmonday.
- (1467) Ordin.Wor.385 : Yerly, at the lawday holdyn at hokday..the grete enquest shalle..ordeyn wheþer the pageant shuld to that yere or no.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)336/20 : Þe same monei go be paid..at hockedai nexte folowinge.
c
- (1240) in Sundby Dial.Wor.133 : Hocselver.
- (c1285) Reg.St.Mary in Camd.91153b : Wychiun excepto Hocselver.
- (1292-4) Doc.Manor in MP 3447 : Pro hocselver regis.
- c1450(c1405) Mum & S.(2) (Add 41666)1568 : Þay sheue at sises and sessions aboute, And halen so þe hockerope oon halfe agayne oþer Til þe strong[est] steriers and styuest on þe heedes Haue haled þe howslord oute atte halle-dore.
- (1458) Acc.St.Margaret Southwark in BMag.32495 : Receyved in Hoke mony Gaderyd by the men, v s. ..; item, Receyved on Hoke money of the Women, xiiij s.
- (1465) Acc.Howard in RC 57510 : Item, the last day of Aprylle my master gaff to the hokpott xx d.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- (1406) Doc.in Riley Mem.Lond.562 : [That no person..shall..take hold of or constrain any person..within house or without, for] hokkyng [on the Monday or Tuesday next, called] Hokkedayes.
Note: Fills date hole in (b)
- (c1424) Let.Bk.Lond.K (Gldh LetBk K)28 : [Precept for proclamation to be made forbidding] hokking [on days called] les hokkedayes.
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