‖ stokaghe Obs.
In Johnson and later Dicts. stocah.
[Irish stócach: cf. the later stalko.]
An attendant on a ‘kerne’ or Irish foot-soldier.
| 1596 Spenser State Irel. Wks. (Globe) 672/1 He..thence⁓foorth becometh either an horseboy, or a stokaghe to some kearne. Ibid. 677/2 Kearne, Stokaghs, and Horseboyes. |