hock-cart Obs. exc. Hist.
[Cf. hockey1.]
The cart or wagon which carried home the last load of the harvest.
| 1648 Herrick Hesper. Argt., I sing of may-poles, hock⁓carts, wassails, wakes, Of bride-grooms, brides, and of their bridall cakes. Ibid., Hock-cart 14 The Harvest Swaines, and Wenches bound For joy, to see the Hock-cart crown'd. 1648 Earl Westmoreland Otia Sacra (1879) 175 How the Hock-Cart with all its gear Should be trick'd up. 1864 Chambers' Bk. of Days II. 377/1 The grain last cut was brought home in its wagon, called the hock-cart, surmounted by a figure formed of a sheaf with gay dressings. |