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Definition of Hattocks
1. hattock [n] - See also: hattock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hattocks
Literary usage of Hattocks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Exchequer: From by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, George Price, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1818)
"Nor is it carried far enough; for it is not stated what is to be done with the
odd sheaves, if the corn should be set up in shocks or hattocks. ..."
2. The Principles and Law of Tithing: Adapted to the Instruction and by Francis Plowden (1806)
"One hundred shocks or hattocks of rye, the tithe whereof was worth in each ...
Three hundred hattocks or shocks of oats, the tithe whereof would have been ..."
3. Cases at Large Concerning Tithes: Containing All the Resolutions of the by barrister-at-law John Rayner, John Rayner, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, Great Britain Court of Exchequer (1783)
"... in each of the faid years one hundred (hocks or hattocks of wheat, the tithe
whereof in each year, if duly paid, would have been worth twenty (billings, ..."
4. A Collection of Acts and Records of Parliament: With Reports of Cases by Sir Henry Gwillim, Charles Ellis (1825)
"»»il scription there set out is, that they shall pay the eleventh part of to the
ob- the corn when set out in hattocks, that is, the eleventh ..."
5. A Collection of Decrees by the Court of Exchequer in Tithe-causes: From the by Hutton Wood, Great Britain Court of Exchequer (1798)
"... without fetting out or paying any thing for odd hattocks under ten, and that
the corn and grain in ..."
6. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1889)
"... and some of the smaller tithe payers broke the custom of tithing by setting
up their sheaves irregularly instead of putting them in hattocks ;i sundry ..."
7. The History of the Church & Manor of Wigan in the County of Lancaster by George Thomas Orlando Bridgeman (1889)
"... and some of the smaller tithe payers broke the custom of tithing by setting
up their sheaves irregularly instead of putting them in hattocks ;' sundry ..."
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