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HOKE-DAY

Volume 10 · 73 words · 1815 Edition

oney, or Hoke-Tuesday Money, a tribute anciently paid the landlord, for giving his tenants and bondmen leave to celebrate hock-day, or hoke-day, in memory of the expulsion of the domineering Danes.

HO-KIEN-Fou, a city of China, and one of the principal in the province of Pe-tcheli. It has two cities of the second, and fifteen of the third class in its district, but is remarkable for nothing but the neatness of its streets.