bockey

English

Etymology

From Dutch bakkie, bakje, or less likely bokaal (“bowl, cup”).

Noun

bockey (plural bockeys)

1. (US, dialect, archaic, New York) A large basket woven from oak splints.
   • 1947 Spring, A. T. Shorey, “Ma and Pa Pitt”, in New York Folklore Quarterly, volume 3, number 1, page 38:

     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.

   • 1983, Henry Charlton Beck, Tales and Towns of Northern New Jersey, page 118:

     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.

   • 2010, Ronnie Clark Coffey, Harriman State Park, page 17:

     Many augmented their income by making baskets known as “bockeys."