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What does Hocktide mean?

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Proper noun
  1. A mediaeval English festival celebrated on the second Monday and Tuesday after Easter Sunday. The festivities involved men and women tying each other up and demanding a kiss or other payment for release.
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It sounded for all the world like a large Christmas beetle, but seeing Easter's been and gone and we're heading for Hocktide, this made no sense, so I went to investigate.
So, in order to escape from actually working, I decided to learn a bit more about Hocktide, and came upon the delightful Beerfordbury Bugle!
A Hocktide Lunch is served to more than 180 commoners and their guests and friends in the Corn Exchange.
The festival begins when the town crier blows his horn and summons the Hocktide Court to the town hall.
Easter lasted a full 10 days until the festival of Hocktide.
Finally the events of the day are rounded off with a traditional Tutti-Supper at the Corn Exchange and the drinking of the Hocktide Punch.

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