(in England) a religious festival formerly kept on the second Monday and Tuesday after Easter, during which, in pre-Reformation times, money was raised for Church and parish purposes.
（英格兰）霍克节（宗教节日，以前在复活节后第二个星期一和星期二，宗教改革前为教堂和教区募捐日）
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On the second Tuesday after Easter, the Hocktide Court is called in the town hall while two ‘Tutti-Men’ collect fishing right fines from the residents of the High Street.
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.
The festival begins when the town crier blows his horn and summons the Hocktide Court to the town hall.
The town has its own town council and Mayor and Hungerford's Hocktide ceremonies take place on the second Tuesday after Easter, more usually known as Tutti-day when the Hocktide Court or Commoners Court is held in the town hall.
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.
A Hocktide Lunch is served to more than 180 commoners and their guests and friends in the Corn Exchange.
So, in order to escape from actually working, I decided to learn a bit more about Hocktide, and came upon the delightful Beerfordbury Bugle!
Easter lasted a full 10 days until the festival of Hocktide.