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hocktide
Hockday Hock"day`, n. [Cf. AS. h[=o]cor mockery, scorn.] A holiday commemorating the expulsion of the Danes, formerly observed on the second Tuesday after Easter; -- called also hocktide. [Eng.] [Written also hokeday.]

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- Hocktide (also Hock tide or Hoke Day) is the Monday and Tuesday in the second w**** after Easter. It was an English medieval festival; both the Tuesday...
- some, such as Oak Apple Day, Souling, Rushbearing, Bawming the Thorn, and Hocktide, are local to certain regions. New Year's Day is observed on 1 January...
- Hungerford is the only place in the country to have continuously celebrated Hocktide or Tutti Day (the second Tuesday after Easter).[citation needed] Today...
- for German or Alsatian wine Hock Mountain, a summit in Washington state Hocktide or Hock tide, an English holiday consisting of Hock Monday and Hock Tuesday...
- following Christmas, and Easter W****, the w**** following Easter that ended at Hocktide (Homans 1991). George C. Homans, English Villagers of the Thirteenth Century...
- known as the "Summer Queen". George C. Homans points out: "The time from Hocktide, after Easter W****, to Lammas (1 August) was summer (estas)." In 1557,...
- and Tuesday in the w**** following the third Sunday of Easter: May 6–7 Hocktide (England) Fourth Sunday after Easter: May 12 Cantate Sunday Good Shepherd...
- Procession.[citation needed] In London, Rogation Days, just like Easter or Hocktide, were times when begging was "legitimate" for the period of celebration...
- Warwickshire Town and Manor of Hungerford and the Manor and Liberty of Sanden Fee Hocktide Court and Court Leet Manor of Laxton Court Leet Court Leet and Baron of...
- imperial pints of such rare old hock" – Charles ****ens) (US: Rhine wine) Hocktide, an ancient holiday hock (zoology) pawn (n. & v.) ("I can borrow a dime...