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has⋅sock

  [has-uhk]
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–noun
1. a thick, firm cushion used as a footstool or for kneeling.
2. ottoman (def. 6).
3. a rank tuft of coarse grass or sedge, as in a bog.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME; OE hassuc coarse grass
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has·sock   (hās'ək)   
n.  

  1. A thick cushion used as a footstool or for kneeling.

  2. A dense clump of grass.


[Middle English hassok, clump of grass, from Old English hassuc.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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hassock 
O.E. hassuc "clump of grass, coarse grass," of unknown origin. Sense of "thick cushion" is first recorded 1516, with the likely connection being the perceived similarity of a kneeling cushion and a tuft of grass.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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