hassockn.

Brit.

/ˈhasək/, U.S.

/ˈhæsək/

Forms: late Old English hassuc, Middle English assoke, Middle English hassok, 1500s–1600s hassocke, 1500s– hassock, 1700s hassuck, 1900s– hassack (Welsh English (southern)), 1900s– hassog (Irish English (northern)), 1900s– hussock (Welsh English); English regional 1800s hassick (southern), 1800s hazzick (Berkshire), 1800s hossock (Yorkshire), 1800s hussock (chiefly northern), 1800s huzzick (Cheshire), 1800s huzzock (Cheshire), 1800s– hassack (midlands), 1900s 'assock (midlands), 1900s hasack (Lincolnshire); also Scottish 1700s hassick, 1800s hussick (Shetland), 1900s hasso (Orkney), 1900s– hussock.

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Probably formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: an element of uncertain origin, -ock suffix.

Etymology: Probably < an element of uncertain origin (see note) + -ock suffix. Perhaps compare later tussock n. Compare ( < English) post-classical Latin hassocus grassy mound in a bog (c1150 in a British source), Anglo-Norman hassok thick cushion, kneeler (1397). With sense 3 compare hask n. It is uncertain whether sense 2 shows the same word.A possible first element may be reflected in field names such as Hassecroft , Cambridgeshire (1251), Hassedole , Huntingdonshire (1252), where it may have reference to fenland vegetation. A borrowing < Welsh hesg sedge (12th cent., perhaps < the same Indo-European base as sedge n.¹) has also been suggested, but this is unlikely for phonological reasons. Occurrence in Anglo-Saxon charter bounds. Before the 15th cent., the English noun is only attested in Anglo-Saxon charter bounds, as a boundary marker or an element in boundary markers, and in place names. The precise sense is not always clear, due to lack of topographical information. The composition date of some of the charter bounds appears to imply currency of the word in the 10th cent. or earlier (compare quot. lOE at sense 1a, which is from an authentic charter dated 986). Compare also the following examples (all boundary markers), which survive in later copies (12th cent.) but are probably earlier than the place names listed below: prilleces hæssecas , lit. ‘the hassocks of prillec (an unexplained word)’, Watchfield, Berkshire (in a charter of 931), hæssuc mor , lit. ‘hassock moor’, Donnington, Gloucestershire (in bounds apparently earlier than 1150). Further evidence from names. Currency in the early Middle English period is also suggested by frequent attestations in place names (especially field names), e.g. Hassok (field name), Cambridgeshire (c1150), Hassok' , Devon (1242, now Haske), Lingehassokes (field name), Northamptonshire (13th cent.). Also attested early in surnames (and perhaps nicknames with reference to bushy hair; compare sense 1b), e.g. Agn' Hassoc (1276), John Hassok (1304–5), Walter le Hassoke (1332).

a. A firm tuft or clump of matted vegetation, esp. coarse grass or sedge, typically found in boggy ground; a tussock. Also occasionally: an isolated clump of bushes or low trees.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > plants collectively > [noun] > tuft, clump, or cluster of plants

hassockc1450

tuft?1523

tusk1530

tush1570

hill1572

dollop1573

clumpa1586

rush1593

trail1597

tussock1607

wreath1610

stool1712

tump1802

sheaf1845

massif1888

lOE Bounds (Sawyer 861) in J. M. Kemble Codex Diplomaticus (1845) III. 223 Of ðam wege on ðone hassuc upp an hrofan hricge.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 228 Hassok, ulphus.

c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 139 And thanne the olde made me gon up on a gret hassok.

1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. xvi. 115/1 in R. Holinshed Chron. I They haue little other fewell, except it be turfe, and hassocke.

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 209 Leaues, spread vpon the grounde in manner of a turffe or hassocke.

1662 W. Dugdale Hist. Imbanking & Drayning Fens To Rdr. sig. A3 The stink of smoaky hassocks.

1710 P. Bateson Papers Gen. Draining Marsh-land Norfolk 9 A black Moore and the Red Earth, then Reed-roots and Hassocks.

1769 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 7) III. 332 Moss..lay above the Ground, in little Heaps..called Hassocks, which were full of Holes, like an Honeycomb.

1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon xi. 286 With much difficulty I could step from one hassock to another, in laying out the drains.

1814 M. R. Mitford Let. 4 June in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) I. 270 The down is entirely spotted with small islets (the country people call them hassocks) of low trees and luxuriant underwood.

1843 J. G. Whittier Prose Wks. (1889) I. 321 I was stumbling over the rough hassocks, and sinking knee-deep in the black mire.

1871 J. R. Nichols Fireside Sci. 111 After digging out the hassocks and burning them.

1929 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 68 23 The scree-dammers, or scree-bankers are plants with their roots and shoots in hassocks, or tussocks..of greater or smaller size.

2018 Sun (Baltimore) (Nexis) 7 Jan. 2 A hassock of grass cradled his back as he looked up.

b. Scottish. An unkempt or thick mass of bushy hair. Cf. hassock-head n. at Compounds 2. Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) records this sense as still in use in north-eastern Scotland in 1956.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [noun] > bushy or thick

bush1509

hair-bush1580

bush-heada1603

shag1607

fella1616

mop1616

bush-hair1692

hassock1754

mopheada1816

shock-head1817

shock1819

flock-hair1878

tousle1880

1754 R. Forbes Jrnl. London to Portsmouth in tr. Ovid Ajax his Speech (new ed.) 28 Wi' a great hassick o' hair, hingin in twa-pennerts about her haffats.

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 274 The captain himself had a huge hassock of air, with three tails, and a tumtawdry coat.

1817 W. Scott Rob Roy III. vii. 187 His tatty pow, that near had a better covering than his ain shaggy hassock of hair!

1851 T. Watson Rhymer's Family 4 Wi' curly hassock thick and black, And brawny arms and buirdly back.

1906 S. R. Crockett White Plume xv, in Sunday at Home Feb. 270/1 ‘Ay’, cried a new voice, as a red hassock of hair showed itself over the brown Capuchin's robe.

2. Now chiefly English regional (Kent). A soft, pale, calcareous sandstone often lying between layers of ragstone, found chiefly in central parts of Kent.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > sedimentary rock > [noun] > sandstone > others

firestone1399

hassock1461

red stone1602

penistone1688

bluestone1709

gingerbread1714

brownstone1780

molasse1794

Old Red Sandstone1805

chip sand1808

fox-bench1816

New Red Sandstone1818

grey band1824

arkose1839

cankstone1845

St. Bees Sandstone1865

pietra serena1873

Ham Hill stone1889

1461–2 in V. Harding & L. Wright London Bridge: Sel. Accts. (1995) 127 [For 20 tontight of stones..called] hassok'.

1683 St. Paul's Cathedral Building Accts. July–Sept. in Wren Soc. (1936) 13 177 For take up & Cart 3 Vessells of Hassock Rubble Stone from Paul's Wharf.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Hassock, soft Sand-stone.

1765 Universal Mag. 37 58/2 Mortar..made..of chalk, sand, or hassock.

1860–4 Dict. Archit. (Archit. Publ. Soc.) (at cited word) The sandstone that separates the beds of the Kentish rag is known by the name of hassock and hassock stone, the latter..when the sand is agglutinated enough to allow its being raised in block.

1879 F. Rutley Study of Rocks xiv. 281 The calcareous sandstones in the Hythe beds in Kent are locally termed hassock.

1963 Geography 48 293 The rag and hassock quarries and Gault pit near Maidstone, Kent, provide a stimulating introduction to rocks and fossils.

2011 G. R. Sharpe Hist. Eng. Churches ii. 189 In the same region [i.e. Kent], deposits of a soft calcareous sandstone known locally as hassock is also found.

†3. A rush basket. Cf. hask n. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > basket > [noun] > made of reeds or rushes

chesta1000

fraila1382

freare1565

hassock1574

flag1640

thrail1694

flag-basket1747

1574 J. Baret Aluearie H 205 A Hassocke, a baskette made of twigges, & rushes Scirpiculum.

4. A thick firm cushion, originally stuffed with rushes or straw, used as a footrest or to kneel upon in church. Cf. kneeler n. 4.Apparently a development of sense 1a. See R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) (at cited word): ‘hassocks in bogs were formerly taken up..shaped, trimmed, and dressed..to make kneeling much easier than on the pavement of the church.’ N.E.D. (1898) notes: ‘Examples of turf or peat, formerly used in the church, were found preserved at Lower Gravenhurst in Bedfordshire in 1897’.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > artefacts > cloths, carpets, cushions > cushion > [noun]

tut1553

pess1575

hassock1582

trush1621

pessock1680

kneeler1848

buffet1877

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > support or rest > [noun] > for feet

shamblec825

stoola1250

benchc1405

buffet1432

foot cushiona1475

footstool1530

cricket1559

grest1563

foot stock1567

hassock1582

cracket1635

crock1709

tuffet1805

mora1818

footrest1833

toe-board1892

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > support or rest > [noun] > kneeler

hassock1582

butt1823

kneeler1848

1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum xvii. xxxv. f. 284^v/2 Segges or sheregrasse, wherof is made mats and Hassocks to sit and kneele vpon.

1640 J. Fletcher & J. Shirley Night-walker v. sig. I4 Buy a mat for a bed, buy a mat, A hassocke for your feet.

1667 in J. Barmby Churchwardens' Accts. Pittington (1888) 202 For a hassock and a matt for our Minister, 6 d.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 112. ¶2 To make them kneel..he gave every one of them a Hassock and a Common-prayer Book.

1785 W. Cowper Task i. 748 Knees and hassocks are well-nigh divorc'd.

1838 A. M. Hall Lights & Shadows Irish Life III. 281 Father Neddy Cormack sank down on the hassock in front of the great chair.

1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet I. viii. 181 A stately pew with red serge seats and hassocks.

1887 M. E. Braddon Like & Unlike I. iii. 73 They..made her comfortable upon the sofa, with a hassock for her feet.

1962 Times 6 Aug. 11/2 A tapestry-worked hassock for Chelsea Old Church.

2003 M. Flook Invisible Eden (2004) 144 I just want to go home and put my feet up on the hassock.

Compounds

C1. General attributive (in sense 1), as hassock grass, hassock plough, etc.

ΚΠ

1641 A. Burrell Explan. Drayning Wks. Cambr. 8 If those Workes faile, all his Hassock Banks will not be worth three pence.

1797 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Suffolk 161 The plough made on purpose, and called a hassock plough, cut laterally much beyond the line of its draught.

1862 C. Kingsley Water-babies i, in Macmillan's Mag. Aug. 280/2 The hassock-grass and sedges tumbled him over.

2015 R. E. Norton Couched Lance xii. 88 Picking their way over and round the tufts of coarse hassock grass.

C2.

† hassock-filler n. Obsolete a device for stuffing church hassocks (see sense 4).

ΚΠ

1868 Sci. Amer. 19 Aug. 124/1 Ottoman and Hassock Filler.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1069/2 Hassock-filler, a device consisting of a curb and a charging cylinder, whereby the stuffing is packed into the cover.

† hassock-head n. Obsolete English regional (East Anglian) an unkempt or thick mass of bushy hair; a head having this; cf. sense 1b. Eng. Dial. Dict. (at cited word) records this compound as still in use in eastern Suffolk in 1901.

ΚΠ

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Hassock-head, a shock head; a bushy and entangled growth of coarse hair.

† hassock knife n. Obsolete an implement for cutting out hassocks (sense 1a).

ΚΠ

1644 J. Vicars Jehovah-jireh ii. 324 Musquettiers, and these also were backt with a weapon called Hassock-knives, long Sythes, and such like Fennish weapons.

1699 Post Boy 24–26 Jan. in Notes & Queries (1891) 7th Ser. 11 168 They were all arm'd, some with Guns, some with..Hassock-knives.

1846 Trans. Essex (Mass.) Agric. Soc. 60 I cut all the surface over with a hassock knife.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	hassock
释义	hassockn. Brit. /ˈhasək/, U.S. /ˈhæsək/ Forms: late Old English hassuc, Middle English assoke, Middle English hassok, 1500s–1600s hassocke, 1500s– hassock, 1700s hassuck, 1900s– hassack (Welsh English (southern)), 1900s– hassog (Irish English (northern)), 1900s– hussock (Welsh English); English regional 1800s hassick (southern), 1800s hazzick (Berkshire), 1800s hossock (Yorkshire), 1800s hussock (chiefly northern), 1800s huzzick (Cheshire), 1800s huzzock (Cheshire), 1800s– hassack (midlands), 1900s 'assock (midlands), 1900s hasack (Lincolnshire); also Scottish 1700s hassick, 1800s hussick (Shetland), 1900s hasso (Orkney), 1900s– hussock. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Probably formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: an element of uncertain origin, -ock suffix. Etymology: Probably < an element of uncertain origin (see note) + -ock suffix. Perhaps compare later tussock n. Compare ( < English) post-classical Latin hassocus grassy mound in a bog (c1150 in a British source), Anglo-Norman hassok thick cushion, kneeler (1397). With sense 3 compare hask n. It is uncertain whether sense 2 shows the same word.A possible first element may be reflected in field names such as Hassecroft , Cambridgeshire (1251), Hassedole , Huntingdonshire (1252), where it may have reference to fenland vegetation. A borrowing < Welsh hesg sedge (12th cent., perhaps < the same Indo-European base as sedge n.¹) has also been suggested, but this is unlikely for phonological reasons. Occurrence in Anglo-Saxon charter bounds. Before the 15th cent., the English noun is only attested in Anglo-Saxon charter bounds, as a boundary marker or an element in boundary markers, and in place names. The precise sense is not always clear, due to lack of topographical information. The composition date of some of the charter bounds appears to imply currency of the word in the 10th cent. or earlier (compare quot. lOE at sense 1a, which is from an authentic charter dated 986). Compare also the following examples (all boundary markers), which survive in later copies (12th cent.) but are probably earlier than the place names listed below: prilleces hæssecas , lit. ‘the hassocks of prillec (an unexplained word)’, Watchfield, Berkshire (in a charter of 931), hæssuc mor , lit. ‘hassock moor’, Donnington, Gloucestershire (in bounds apparently earlier than 1150). Further evidence from names. Currency in the early Middle English period is also suggested by frequent attestations in place names (especially field names), e.g. Hassok (field name), Cambridgeshire (c1150), Hassok' , Devon (1242, now Haske), Lingehassokes (field name), Northamptonshire (13th cent.). Also attested early in surnames (and perhaps nicknames with reference to bushy hair; compare sense 1b), e.g. Agn' Hassoc (1276), John Hassok (1304–5), Walter le Hassoke (1332). 1. a. A firm tuft or clump of matted vegetation, esp. coarse grass or sedge, typically found in boggy ground; a tussock. Also occasionally: an isolated clump of bushes or low trees. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > plants collectively > [noun] > tuft, clump, or cluster of plants hassockc1450 tuft?1523 tusk1530 tush1570 hill1572 dollop1573 clumpa1586 rush1593 trail1597 tussock1607 wreath1610 stool1712 tump1802 sheaf1845 massif1888 lOE Bounds (Sawyer 861) in J. M. Kemble Codex Diplomaticus (1845) III. 223 Of ðam wege on ðone hassuc upp an hrofan hricge. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 228 Hassok, ulphus. c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 139 And thanne the olde made me gon up on a gret hassok. 1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. xvi. 115/1 in R. Holinshed Chron. I They haue little other fewell, except it be turfe, and hassocke. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 209 Leaues, spread vpon the grounde in manner of a turffe or hassocke. 1662 W. Dugdale Hist. Imbanking & Drayning Fens To Rdr. sig. A3 The stink of smoaky hassocks. 1710 P. Bateson Papers Gen. Draining Marsh-land Norfolk 9 A black Moore and the Red Earth, then Reed-roots and Hassocks. 1769 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 7) III. 332 Moss..lay above the Ground, in little Heaps..called Hassocks, which were full of Holes, like an Honeycomb. 1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon xi. 286 With much difficulty I could step from one hassock to another, in laying out the drains. 1814 M. R. Mitford Let. 4 June in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) I. 270 The down is entirely spotted with small islets (the country people call them hassocks) of low trees and luxuriant underwood. 1843 J. G. Whittier Prose Wks. (1889) I. 321 I was stumbling over the rough hassocks, and sinking knee-deep in the black mire. 1871 J. R. Nichols Fireside Sci. 111 After digging out the hassocks and burning them. 1929 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 68 23 The scree-dammers, or scree-bankers are plants with their roots and shoots in hassocks, or tussocks..of greater or smaller size. 2018 Sun (Baltimore) (Nexis) 7 Jan. 2 A hassock of grass cradled his back as he looked up. b. Scottish. An unkempt or thick mass of bushy hair. Cf. hassock-head n. at Compounds 2. Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) records this sense as still in use in north-eastern Scotland in 1956. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [noun] > bushy or thick bush1509 hair-bush1580 bush-heada1603 shag1607 fella1616 mop1616 bush-hair1692 hassock1754 mopheada1816 shock-head1817 shock1819 flock-hair1878 tousle1880 1754 R. Forbes Jrnl. London to Portsmouth in tr. Ovid Ajax his Speech (new ed.) 28 Wi' a great hassick o' hair, hingin in twa-pennerts about her haffats. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 274 The captain himself had a huge hassock of air, with three tails, and a tumtawdry coat. 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy III. vii. 187 His tatty pow, that near had a better covering than his ain shaggy hassock of hair! 1851 T. Watson Rhymer's Family 4 Wi' curly hassock thick and black, And brawny arms and buirdly back. 1906 S. R. Crockett White Plume xv, in Sunday at Home Feb. 270/1 ‘Ay’, cried a new voice, as a red hassock of hair showed itself over the brown Capuchin's robe. 2. Now chiefly English regional (Kent). A soft, pale, calcareous sandstone often lying between layers of ragstone, found chiefly in central parts of Kent. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > sedimentary rock > [noun] > sandstone > others firestone1399 hassock1461 red stone1602 penistone1688 bluestone1709 gingerbread1714 brownstone1780 molasse1794 Old Red Sandstone1805 chip sand1808 fox-bench1816 New Red Sandstone1818 grey band1824 arkose1839 cankstone1845 St. Bees Sandstone1865 pietra serena1873 Ham Hill stone1889 1461–2 in V. Harding & L. Wright London Bridge: Sel. Accts. (1995) 127 [For 20 tontight of stones..called] hassok'. 1683 St. Paul's Cathedral Building Accts. July–Sept. in Wren Soc. (1936) 13 177 For take up & Cart 3 Vessells of Hassock Rubble Stone from Paul's Wharf. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Hassock, soft Sand-stone. 1765 Universal Mag. 37 58/2 Mortar..made..of chalk, sand, or hassock. 1860–4 Dict. Archit. (Archit. Publ. Soc.) (at cited word) The sandstone that separates the beds of the Kentish rag is known by the name of hassock and hassock stone, the latter..when the sand is agglutinated enough to allow its being raised in block. 1879 F. Rutley Study of Rocks xiv. 281 The calcareous sandstones in the Hythe beds in Kent are locally termed hassock. 1963 Geography 48 293 The rag and hassock quarries and Gault pit near Maidstone, Kent, provide a stimulating introduction to rocks and fossils. 2011 G. R. Sharpe Hist. Eng. Churches ii. 189 In the same region [i.e. Kent], deposits of a soft calcareous sandstone known locally as hassock is also found. †3. A rush basket. Cf. hask n. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > basket > [noun] > made of reeds or rushes chesta1000 fraila1382 freare1565 hassock1574 flag1640 thrail1694 flag-basket1747 1574 J. Baret Aluearie H 205 A Hassocke, a baskette made of twigges, & rushes Scirpiculum. 4. A thick firm cushion, originally stuffed with rushes or straw, used as a footrest or to kneel upon in church. Cf. kneeler n. 4.Apparently a development of sense 1a. See R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) (at cited word): ‘hassocks in bogs were formerly taken up..shaped, trimmed, and dressed..to make kneeling much easier than on the pavement of the church.’ N.E.D. (1898) notes: ‘Examples of turf or peat, formerly used in the church, were found preserved at Lower Gravenhurst in Bedfordshire in 1897’. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > cloths, carpets, cushions > cushion > [noun] tut1553 pess1575 hassock1582 trush1621 pessock1680 kneeler1848 buffet1877 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > support or rest > [noun] > for feet shamblec825 stoola1250 benchc1405 buffet1432 foot cushiona1475 footstool1530 cricket1559 grest1563 foot stock1567 hassock1582 cracket1635 crock1709 tuffet1805 mora1818 footrest1833 toe-board1892 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > support or rest > [noun] > kneeler hassock1582 butt1823 kneeler1848 1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum xvii. xxxv. f. 284^v/2 Segges or sheregrasse, wherof is made mats and Hassocks to sit and kneele vpon. 1640 J. Fletcher & J. Shirley Night-walker v. sig. I4 Buy a mat for a bed, buy a mat, A hassocke for your feet. 1667 in J. Barmby Churchwardens' Accts. Pittington (1888) 202 For a hassock and a matt for our Minister, 6 d. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 112. ¶2 To make them kneel..he gave every one of them a Hassock and a Common-prayer Book. 1785 W. Cowper Task i. 748 Knees and hassocks are well-nigh divorc'd. 1838 A. M. Hall Lights & Shadows Irish Life III. 281 Father Neddy Cormack sank down on the hassock in front of the great chair. 1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet I. viii. 181 A stately pew with red serge seats and hassocks. 1887 M. E. Braddon Like & Unlike I. iii. 73 They..made her comfortable upon the sofa, with a hassock for her feet. 1962 Times 6 Aug. 11/2 A tapestry-worked hassock for Chelsea Old Church. 2003 M. Flook Invisible Eden (2004) 144 I just want to go home and put my feet up on the hassock. Compounds C1. General attributive (in sense 1), as hassock grass, hassock plough, etc. ΚΠ 1641 A. Burrell Explan. Drayning Wks. Cambr. 8 If those Workes faile, all his Hassock Banks will not be worth three pence. 1797 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Suffolk 161 The plough made on purpose, and called a hassock plough, cut laterally much beyond the line of its draught. 1862 C. Kingsley Water-babies i, in Macmillan's Mag. Aug. 280/2 The hassock-grass and sedges tumbled him over. 2015 R. E. Norton Couched Lance xii. 88 Picking their way over and round the tufts of coarse hassock grass. C2. † hassock-filler n. Obsolete a device for stuffing church hassocks (see sense 4). ΚΠ 1868 Sci. Amer. 19 Aug. 124/1 Ottoman and Hassock Filler. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1069/2 Hassock-filler, a device consisting of a curb and a charging cylinder, whereby the stuffing is packed into the cover. † hassock-head n. Obsolete English regional (East Anglian) an unkempt or thick mass of bushy hair; a head having this; cf. sense 1b. Eng. Dial. Dict. (at cited word) records this compound as still in use in eastern Suffolk in 1901. ΚΠ a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Hassock-head, a shock head; a bushy and entangled growth of coarse hair. † hassock knife n. Obsolete an implement for cutting out hassocks (sense 1a). ΚΠ 1644 J. Vicars Jehovah-jireh ii. 324 Musquettiers, and these also were backt with a weapon called Hassock-knives, long Sythes, and such like Fennish weapons. 1699 Post Boy 24–26 Jan. in Notes & Queries (1891) 7th Ser. 11 168 They were all arm'd, some with Guns, some with..Hassock-knives. 1846 Trans. Essex (Mass.) Agric. Soc. 60 I cut all the surface over with a hassock knife. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † hassockv. Forms: 1600s hassak, 1600s hassok, 1700s–1900s hassock. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: hassock n. Etymology: < hassock n. Obsolete. 1. transitive. To remove hassocks (hassock n. 1a) from (an area of land) by digging them out. Chiefly in passive.historical in later use. ΚΠ 1651 Proc. of the Adventurers 24 Dec. V. (Cambridgeshire Arch., Bedford Level Corporation papers, R59/31/9/5) f. 159 Euery priuate man whatsoeuer that desires to haue his Land hassaked by the Scotts shall henceforward allow vnto the Company six shillings an acre for euery acre so hassaked. 1749 Boston Weekly Post-boy 17 Apr. in W. Nelson Documents Colonial Hist. New Jersey (1895) XII. 528 There is near three Hundred Acres of Meadow, great Part ditched and hassocked, made fit for the Scyth. 1866 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2 298 The land when wet is ‘hassocked’ every year in December, the hassocks being cut with a square-edged spade, turned over, and fitted into the place whence taken out. 1901 Eastern Counties Mag. 1 243 He had a good deal to do with bringing the Scotch prisoners of war to do the drainage works, and..he offers 6s. per acre for hassocking his part of the land. 2. transitive. To furnish (esp. a church or pew) with a hassock or hassocks (hassock n. 4). Chiefly in passive. ΚΠ 1836 Patriot 6 Jan. 4/4 This nefarious and insulting appointment, we say, gave the last finish to the Ministerial Upholstery for cushioning, hassocking, and hanging the anticipated new churches in Scotland. 1842 R. H. Barham Sir Rupert in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 40 He..resolves to..new-cushion and hassock the family pew. 1873 G. Grant Coming Home to roost I. 286 He took her a sitting at St. Mark's, had it hassocked and cushioned. 1887 St. Louis Mag. 213 A large pew had been taken, cushioned and hassocked to perfection. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.lOEv.1651
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hassockn.

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† hassockv.