Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hat.
- noun A shock or stack of corn.
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- noun Scotland, archaic A small
hat .
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Examples
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Away with you, sirs, get your boots and your beasts — horse and hattock, I say, and let us meet at the East Port; that is, if it is your pleasure, neighbours, to trust us with the matter.”
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Fair City of Perth, horse and hattock, as I said before, and meet me at the East Port.”
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a corn stalk, a straw, or a rush, and cried out "Horse and hattock, in the Devil's name!" and immediately away they flew, "forty times as high as the moon," if they wished.
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Divellis name 'is not unlike the form given by Martin Tulouff; the second is longer,' Horse and hattock, horse and goe, Horse and pellattis, ho! ho! '[
The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913
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And, therefore, neighbours, and good burghers of the Fair City of Perth, horse and hattock, as I said before, and meet me at the East Port. "
The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day Walter Scott 1801
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Away with you, sirs, get your boots and your beasts -- horse and hattock, I say, and let us meet at the East Port; that is, if it is your pleasure, neighbours, to trust us with the matter. "
The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day Walter Scott 1801
hernesheir commented on the word hattock
A shock of corn containing twelve sheaves. - an old term from the north of Britain recorded in Grose's 1787 A Provincial Glossary.
May 3, 2011