Bockey
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Bockey is a noun meaning (US, dialect, archaic, New York) A large basket woven from oak splints.
Meaning
(US, dialect, archaic, New York) A large basket woven from oak splints.
Example Sentences
Many augmented their income by making baskets known as “bockeys."
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.
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 and bring them down to sell in Ladentown, Rockland County, New York, and perhaps elsewhere.
Word Forms
- bockeys
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include blickey, coak, basket, tolbot, botkin, hobbock.
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