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Hocket vs Cocket - What's the difference?

hocket | cocket |

As nouns the difference between hocket and cocket

is that hocket is hiccup while cocket is (uk|obsolete) a document issued by the bond office stating that duty has been paid and goods may be sold.

As an adjective cocket is

(obsolete) pert; saucy.

hocket

English

(Hocket)

Noun

(en noun)
  • hiccup
  • * 1977 , Lloyd Ultan, Music theory: problems and practices in the Middle Ages and Renaissance , U of Minnesota Press, page 91:
  • All of these tend to produce something of a hiccough effect we know as hocket and which Reese suggests has a long history dating back to primitive instruments.
  • (music) In medieval music, hocket is the rhythmic linear technique using the alternation of notes, pitches, or chords. A single melody is shared between two (or occasionally more) voices such that alternately one voice sounds while the other rests.
  • * 1977 , Lloyd Ultan, Music theory: problems and practices in the Middle Ages and Renaissance , U of Minnesota Press, page 91:
  • Hocket is a contrapuntal technique described by the early fourteenth-century Walter Odington as "A truncation … made over the tenor … in such a way that one voice is always silent while the other sings."

    Derived terms

    * hocketing * hockettor

    References

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    cocket

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, obsolete) a document issued by the bond office stating that duty has been paid and goods may be sold.
  • (UK, obsolete) An office in a customhouse where goods intended for export are entered.
  • (obsolete) A measure for bread.
  • (Blount)
    Derived terms
    * cocket writer

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) pert; saucy
  • (Halliwell)
    (Webster 1913)