Word Meanings - BASSOCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A hassock. See 2d Bass, 2.

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• HASSOCK
  large, round turf used as a seat, OE. hassok sedgy ground, W. hesgog 1. A rank tuft of bog grass; a tussock. Forby. 2. A small stuffed cushion or footstool, for kneeling on in church, or for home use. And knees and hassocks are well nigh divorced.