hokum

hokum [ME hok] 1 hook for door or sim. use in building; b (part of plough); c (as agric. implement). 1342 pro viij ~is novis hostiis chori Sacr. Ely II 109; 1382 (v. hengellum); 1389 in ~is, twystis, et clavis Ac. Obed. Abingd. 54; 1397 pro ~is et rydis ‥; Willelmo Yrmonger pro clavis et ~is Cant. Coll. Ox. 143. b 1307 in ~is, capp’, auricul’ ‥ ad carucas faciend’ Ac. Man. Wint. (Wroughton). c 1345 j hok’ pro terra tractand’ (MinAc Langenhoe) MS Essex RO D/DE1 M22. 2 spit or strip of land (? in bend of river). 1195 dabit ‥ ~um terre ‥ que jacet in marisco ‥ in Kisflete Fines Suss 4; 1222 Ricardus ‥ reddit j d. pro quodam ~o marisci Dom. S. Paul. 60; 13‥ ~um [of meadow lying in the holm] Cart. Harrold 136; 1394 unum †hokun prati ‥ jacet in le Holme Ib. 138.

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