Hock Tuesdayn.
Obsolete exc. Historical.
The Tuesday in Hocktide n.; Hock-day n. Also called binding-Tuesday (dies Martis ligatoria): see Binding-Tuesday n. at binding n. Compounds 2.
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c1250 Reg. Salop Abbey No. 179 Unum denarium coquinæ prænominati conventus die qui vulgariter dicitur Hoketysday persolvere.
c1250 Reg. Salop Abbey No. 178 B In die Hoketisday.
1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. (1482) ccxliv. 301 On saynt Markes day that was that tyme hoketewysday, he toke his leue.
?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 32 (margin) Hok Tuisday by the Couentree men.
1656 W. Dugdale Antiq. Warwickshire 166/1 Hither came the Coventre-men [in 1575], and acted the antient Play, long since used in that City, called Hocks tuesday, setting forth the destruction of the Danes in King Ethelred's time.
1672 T. Manley Νομοθετης: Cowell's Interpreter sig. Mm2a Hockeday, Otherwise called Hock-tuesday.
1777 J. Brand Observ. Pop. Antiq. (1870) I. 105 (note) Hoke Monday was for the men, and Hock Tuesday for the women. On both days the men and women, alternately, with great merriment intercepted the public roads with ropes, and pulled passengers to them, from whom they exacted money to be laid out in pious uses.
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