Hokeday, or Hock-Tuesday, a holiday formerly kept in England on the second Tuesday after Easter to commemorate the expulsion of the Danes in the time of King Ethelred. Along with Michaelmas this festival was at one time used as a term for the payment of rents; and in the accounts of Magdalen College, Oxford, there occur several yearly allowances pro multieribus hockantibus. Hocking consisted in stopping the highway with ropes, and demanding a gratuity from passengers before they were permitted to pass.