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Hassock

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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.”


 

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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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Hartnet
Harum Scarum
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Harvest Goose
Harvest Moon
Hash (A)
Hassan
Hassan-Ben-Sabah
Hassock
Hat
Hat Money
Hats and Caps
Hatches
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Hatchway (Lieutenant Jack)
Hatef [the deadly]
Hattemists
Hatteraick (Dirk)
Hatto