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▪ I. hox, hoxter
obs. ff. ox, huckster.
▪ II. † hox, n. Obs. rare.
[app. shortened from a fuller form *hoxen (retained in hockshin, huckson, huxen), repr. OE. hóhsinu, pl. hóhsina, hough-sinew, and corresp. to ON. hásin, OFris. hôxene, hoxne, OHG. *hâhsina, hâhsna, MDu. haessene, haasen (Kilian haessen), Du. haassen, haasse, haas, in Groningen haoks, in same sense. Cf. hoxen v.
The final -en of *hox-en may have been taken in ME. as a pl. ending (the OE. pl. hóhsina would give ME. *hoȝsin, *hoxen), and a sing. hox deduced from it (cf. chick).]
A hamstring.
c1440Wyclif's Bible 2 Sam. viii. 4 Dauid kitte the hoxes of alle the beestis drawynge.
▪ III. † hox, v. Obs. or dial.
Also 4 hoxe, 7–8 hocks.
[Shortened from hoxen v., (?) under influence of hox n. Cf. Ger. dial. hächsen, hessen, häsen = Ger. hechsnen, in same sense.]
trans. To hough, to hamstring.
1388Wyclif Josh. xi. 6 Thou schalt hoxe the horsis of hem. ― 1 Chron. xviii. 4 He hoxide alle the horsis of charis [1382 He kutte the knee senewis]. 1594Lyly Moth. Bomb. iii. iv. 113, I thrust my hand into my pocket for a knife, thinking to hox him. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. i. ii. 244 Thou art a Coward, Which hoxes honestie behind, restrayning From Course requir'd. 1699W. Dampier Voy. II. ii. 97 Neither he nor any other Spaniard ever came hither after⁓ward to hocks Cattle. 1718Entertainer 280 They not only fired his Stacks of Corn and Hay, but hox'd and stabb'd his Cattel. 1756Foote Eng. fr. Paris ii. Wks. (1788) 35 Hocks the Heels.
Hence † hoxing, hocksing vbl. n. (also attrib.); also † ˈhockser, one who houghs or hamstrings.
1598J. Manwood Forest Laws xvi. §12. 100 b, That..the old Forresters were wont to call Hamling, or Hoxing, and of some Hocksynewing. 1699W. Dampier Voy. II. ii. 97 The Hockser is mounted on a good Horse, bred up to the sport. Ibid., His Arms is a Hocksing Iron, which is made in the shape of a Half Moon. Ibid. 98 The right Ear of the Hocksing-Horse, by the weight of the Pole..hangs down always. |