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† hocket Obs.
Also 4–5 hoket, 7 hocquet.
[a. F. hoquet, in OF. also hocquet shock, sudden interruption, hitch, hiccup: see Hatz.-Darm.]
1. Hitch, obstacle; interruption; chicane, trick.
[1276see hockettor.] 13..K. Alis. 7000 Mony hoket is in amours; Stedfast seldom ben lechoures. c1460Towneley Myst. xxx. 233 Here I be gesse of many nyce hoket, Of care and of curstnes, hethyng and hoket. Ibid. 312 Hym thynke it no hoket his taylle when he Wryngys.
2. = hicket, hiccup.
1601Holland Pliny xx. xvii, The troublesome yex or hocquet. Ibid. II. 50 Against the Hocquet or Yex, there is a notable medicine made with it. 1617Minsheu Ductor s.v. Hocke, It is good to helpe the Hocket or Hicket.
3. Mediæval Mus. An interruption of a voice-part (usually of two or more parts alternately) by rests, so as to produce a broken or spasmodic effect; used as a contrapuntal device.[1326Robt. de Handlo Regulæ xii. §5 Hoketus.] 1776Hawkins Hist. Mus. liii. II. 195 De Handlo..says, that Hockets are formed by the combination of notes and pauses. 1875Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms, Hocket, Hoket, Ochetus..was the same as truncatio (truncatio idem est quod hoket). 1880Grove Dict. Mus., Hocket, a term which occurs in old English writers on music, beginning with De Handlo (1326), for passages which were truncated or mangled, or a combination of notes and pauses.
Hence † ˈhockettor Obs., a tricker, a sharper.
[1276Act 4 Edw. I, Stat. Rageman in Stat. Realm I. 44/2 Par hoketours ou barettours [v.r. par hokettez ne par baretz]. ]1672–1727Cowell's Interpr., Hockettor or Hocqueteur, is an old French word for a Knight of the Post, a decayed man, a Basket-carrier. |