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▪ I. † hockle, v.1 Obs.
[app. deriv. of hock n.2; or iterative of hock v.1, hough v. But perhaps only an error of Skinner's perpetuated in Dictionaries.]
To hough, to hamstring. Hence hockler.
1668–71Skinner Etym. Ling. Angl., To Hockle, Poplites seu Suffragines Succidere. Ibid., Hocklers of Horse, qui equis suffragines succidunt. 1678Littleton Lat. Dict. 1721Bailey, Hockle, to hamstring, or cut the Joints towards the hough. 1755in Johnson. Thence in mod. Dicts.
▪ II. hockle, v.2 local. ? Obs.
To cut up (stubble).
1746Compl. Farmer s.v. Farm, Hockling, or cutting up and raking haulm, 2s. 6d. per acre. 1785in A. Young Ann. Agric. IV. 108 We [near Hartlebury, Worcestersh.] pay about 4s. per acre for reaping wheat, and diet, if they set it up and hockle it. |