A doss or footstool made of hêsg (sedge or rushes).
“Hassocks should be gotten in the fens, and laid at the foot of the said bank … . where need required.”—Dugdale: Imbanking, p. 322.
“The knees and hassocks are well-nigh divorced.”
Cowper.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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