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▪ I. hockey1, hawkey, horkey|ˈhɒkɪ, ˈhɔːkɪ|
Also 6 hocky, hooky, 7 hoacky, hoky, 8 hoaky, 9 hockay, hawkie.
[Origin and etymological form unknown: cf. hock-cart.]
1. The old name in the eastern counties of England for the feast at harvest-home.
1555[see 2]. 1600Nashe Summer's Last Will & Test. in Hazl. Dodsley VIII. 49 Hooky, hooky, we have shorn, And we have bound; And we have brought Harvest Home to town. 1676Poor Robin's Alm. Aug. in N. & Q. 1st Ser. (1850) I. 457/2 Hoacky is brought Home with hallowing Boys with plum-cake The Cart following. 1806Bloomfield Horkey Advt., The man who..goes foremost through the harvest with the scythe or the sickle, is honoured with the title of Lord, and at the Horkey, or harvest-home feast, collects what he can. 1812E. D. Clarke Trav. Var. Countries II. 229 note, At the Hawkie, as it is called, or Harvest-Home, I have seen a clown dressed in woman's clothes, having his face painted, his head decorated with ears of corn. 1822J. Gage Hist. Hengrave 6 The hockay, or harvest home..begins to fall into disuse. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Hawkey, the feast at harvest home. 1826G. H. I. in Hone Every-day Bk. II. 1168 This health⁓drinking..finishes the horkey.
2. attrib. and Comb., as hockey cry, hockey load, hockey night; hockey cake, the seed cake distributed at a harvest-home; hockey cart = hock-cart.
1555Abp. Parker Ps. cxxvi. 376 He home returnes: wyth hocky cry, With sheaues full lade abundantly. 1602Warner Alb. Eng. xvi. ciii. 80 I'le duly keepe for thy delight Rock-Monday, and the Wake, Hawe Shrouings, Christmas-gambols, with the Hokie and Seed-cake. a1613Overbury Charact., Franklin Wks. (1856) 150 Rocke Munday..Christmas Eve, the hoky, or seed cake, these he yeerely keepes, yet holds them no reliques of popery. 1712Poor Robin (N.), Harvest is done, therefore, wife, make For harvest men a hoaky cake. 1731N. Salmon New Surv. Eng., Hertf. II. 415 Hockey Cake is that which is distributed to the people at Harvest Home. The Hockey Cart is that which brings the last Corn, and the Children rejoycing with Boughs in their Hands, with which the Horses also are attired. 1806Bloomfield Horkey iv, 'Twas Farmer Cheerum's Horkey night. Ibid. xiii, Home came the jovial Horkey load, Last of the whole year's crop; And Grace amongst the green boughs rode Right plump upon the top. Ibid. xvi, Farmer Cheerum went..And broach'd the Horkey beer. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Hawkey-load, the last load of the crop, which..was always led home on the evening of the hawkey, with much rustic pageantry. 1826G. H. I. in Hone Every-day Bk. II. 1166 The last, or ‘horkey load’ (as it is here [Norfolk] called) is decorated with flags and streamers.
▪ II. hockey2|ˈhɒkɪ|
Also 6 -ie, 9 hawky, -key.
[Origin uncertain; but the analogy of many other games makes it likely that the name originally belonged to the hooked stick. Of. hoquet ‘shepherd's staff, crook’, suits form and sense; but connecting links are wanting. The isolated occurrence of the word in 1527 is very remarkable. It is not certain that Cowper's ‘sport’ was the same.]
1. a. An outdoor game of ball played with sticks or clubs hooked or curved at one end, with which the players of each side drive the ball towards the goal at the other end of the ground. Also called bandy and shinty.
1527Galway Stat. in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 402 The horlinge of the litill balle with hockie stickes or staves. 1785Cowper Let. 5 Nov., The boys at Olney have likewise a very entertaining sport, which commences annually upon this day [5th Nov.]: they call it Hockey; and it consists in dashing each other with mud, and the windows also. 1838W. Holloway Dict. Provinc., Hawkey, the name of a game played by several boys on each side with sticks, called hawkey-bats, and a ball..W. Sussex. 1842G. T. Vigne Trav. Kashmir (1844) II. 289 At Shighur I first saw the game of the Chaughán..It is in fact hocky on horseback..The ball is called in Tibiti, ‘Pulu’. 1857Chambers' Inform. II. 703 Shinty in Scotland, Hockey in England, and Hurling in Ireland seem to be very much the same out-of-door sport. 1865Lubbock Preh. Times xiv. (1869) 498 Kane saw the children in Smith's Sound playing hockey on the ice.
b. In N. Amer. = ice hockey.
The older game is referred to as field hockey.
1895Rat Portage (Ont.) News 11 Jan. 1/2 Hockey is the most popular winter sport in Canada, taking the place of lacrosse. 1906Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 5 Jan. 2/1 The first hockey match of the season was played here between Rossland and Nelson teams. 1953Canad. Geogr. Jrnl. XLVI. 138/2 The children maintain their own open air hockey rink on the ice of Green River. 1969Widdowson & Halpert in Halpert & Story Christmas Mumming in Newfoundland 162, I dressed in a hockey suit.
2. (U.S.) The stick or club used in this game: cf. bandy, shinty.
1839J. Abbott Caleb in Town ii. The Hawkies 38 Now, a hawkey is a small, round stick, about as long as a man's cane, with a crook in the lower end, so that a boy can hit balls and little stones with it, when lying upon the ground. A good hawky is a great prize to a Boston boy. 1866Harvard Mem. Biog., J. Savage I. 329, I remember him as yesterday, full of fun and courage, with his hockey in hand. 1868L. M. Alcott Lit. Wom. I. viii. 117 Laurie..lying flat [on the ice] held Amy up by his arm and hockey.
3. attrib. and Comb., as hockey-ball, hockey-bat, hockey-club, hockey-girl, hockey-match, hockey-playing, hockey-set, hockey-stick, hockey-tournament, hockey-type.
1838Hawkey-bat [see 1]. 1849Thackeray Pendennis iii, A little wretch whom he had cut over the back with a hockey-stick. 1884Bath Jrnl. 16 Feb. 7/2 The festivities of the week include a hockey tournament. 1889John Bull 2 Mar. 146/3 Hockey clubs now abound in the neighbourhood of London..while a Hockey Association has drawn up an admirable code of rules. 1906Daily Chron. 4 Oct. 4/4 The ‘hockey set’ are as a rule some of the healthiest girls in college. 1909Ibid. 5 May 9/2 ‘Dear me, no, Miss Bulliphant,’ she replied in what I call the downright, hockey-girl manner. 1915V. Woolf Voyage Out xiv. 211 Hockey-playing young women in Wiltshire. 1936‘R. West’ Thinking Reed xii. 435 You look awfully well now, well to the point of hockey-playing. 1959Times 16 Feb. 11/5 The models are all looking much better fed, and without yet suggesting hockey-girls they don't any longer look like haughty hunger-strikers. 1961Times 18 May 17/1 Miss Sian Reynolds as a hockey-girl St. Joan. 1963J. T. Story Something for Nothing i. 17, I like the hockey type... I can't stand these sex-pots.
▪ III. hockey3 Darts.|ˈ(h)ɒkɪ|
Now also oche.
[Of uncertain origin.
A favourite explanation derives the word from the name of a supposed West Country brewery, S. Hockey and Sons, whose crates were allegedly lined up to measure the throwing distance. Other suggestions involve OF. ochen ‘to cut a deep notch in’ (see notch n.) and hog-line (hog n.1 13 a) in Curling (see also Partridge s.v. (h)oggins line), but none is satisfactorily proven.]
The line behind which a player must stand when throwing darts at the board; the throwing-line.
1934Nat. Darts Assoc. Official Handbk. 8 A Referee should be appointed to watch the ‘hockey’. 1937Darts & Sports Weekly News 4 Sept. 6/1 Even now a dart-player occasionally ‘loses one’ in the cross-beam between the hockey and the board. 1945Dart 22 Sept. 1/1 My suggestion for the standard hockey that must one day be utilised for national and international competitions, is a raised one, placed 7′ 6{pp} from the face of the board. 1959Chambers's Encycl. IV. 381/1 The ‘hockey’, or line behind which the player stands, should not be more than 9 ft from the board. 1980Observer 10 Feb. 44/3 Lazarenko is on the ‘oche’—the mark from which to throw. 1981R. Lewis Seek for Justice i. 18 The oche—the line behind which the [darts] thrower has to stand when he aims his arrows. 1984Sunday People 15 Apr. 35/1 Eric Bristow had to fork out a quid before he could even step up to the oche. |