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(US, dialect, archaic, New York) 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.
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.
Many augmented their income by making baskets known as “bockeys."
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Bockey means (US, dialect, archaic, New York) A large basket woven from oak splints..
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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.
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