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Definition of Hickock
1. Noun. Frontier marshal whose adventures have become legendary (1837-1876).
Definition of Hickock
1. Noun. A hiccup. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hickock
Literary usage of Hickock
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut: From the First Indian Deed in 1659 by William Cothren (1879)
"Benjamin and Sarah hickock, aged 3 months, Jan. 22, 1735. ... Simeon, s. of Deacon
Benjamin, 2d, and Sarah hickock, aged 2, Sept. 27, 1722. ..."
2. The Various Writings of Cornelius Mathews by Cornelius Mathews (1863)
"If dandy hickock gets in," says a squint- eyed man with a twisted nose, " I've
got a rooster ... The hickock gentry now sent up, in turn, a vigorous hurrah; ..."
3. Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor by Wayne E. Burton (1867)
"I claim him," said one of the boat-hook gentlemen, a member of the Seventh Ward
hickock Wharf Committee. "I saw him first! He's our voter by all that's fair ..."
4. Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of by New York (State). Supreme Court, William Johnson, Lorenzo B. Shepard (1849)
"Thomas Scribner, the respondent, being indebted to Ezra hickock, the appellant,
in the sum of 143/. 18s. 9d. on the 23d of March, 1787, assigned to him, ..."
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