单词 | hockey cake |
释义 | > as lemmashockey cake hockey cake n. the seed cake distributed at a harvest-home. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > cake for specific occasion > harvest home hockey cake1606 1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xvi. ciii. 407 I'le duly keepe for thy delight Rock-Monday, and the Wake, Haue Shrouings, Christmas-gambols, with the Hokie & Seed-cake. 1615 T. Overbury et al. New & Choise Characters with Wife (6th impr.) sig. M7v Rocke Munday,..Christmas Eue, the Hoky, or seed Cake, these he yearely keepes: yet holdes them no reliques of Popery. 1712 Poor Robin Harvest is done, therefore, wife, make For harvest men a hoaky cake. 1731 N. Salmon New Surv. Eng. II. Hertf. 415 Hockey Cake is that which is distributed to the people at Harvest Home. < as lemmas |
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