bockey
bockey noun: a large basket woven from oak splints.
Noun
bockey (plural bockeys)
- A large basket woven from oak splints.
- The large baskets, called Bockeys (the old Dutch word for basket), used for toting this charcoal, were, I believe, the forerunners of the present-day Adirondack pack basket.1947 Spring, A. T. Shorey, “Ma and Pa Pitt”, in New York Folklore Quarterly, volume 3, number 1, page 38
- Even the coming of the New York Thruway and the connections for the Garden State Parkway had failed to alter the setting as an heirloom of troop movements of long ago, of the rattle of early stagecoaches, and of the "bockeys” —these were mountain people who continued to weave baskets of oak splints...1983, Henry Charlton Beck, Tales and Towns of Northern New Jersey, page 118
Forms of bockey
| plural | bockeys |
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Origin of bockey
From Dutch bakkie, bakje, or less likely bokaal (“bowl, cup”).
Questions about bockey
- What does bockey mean?
- Bockey means a large basket woven from oak splints.
- What part of speech is bockey?
- Bockey is a noun.
- What is the plural of bockey?
- The plural of bockey is bockeys.
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