Crossword-Solution: HOICK 5 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Overseers would attend the harvest with large carts, prong the tenth turnip, hoick up the tenth sheaf of wheat, bucket out the tenth gallon of ale, and so forth.

Every now and then Mahmoud would force a son or domestic of his to go down and hoick out a pearl, and this pearl he would exchange for something that he absolutely needed, such as a new tent or a new camel, and then he went on living the way he had been living before.

There he dwelt and nursed his wounds, till, when the snow melted, the huntsman's "In-hoick, in-hoick, loo-loo-in-hoick!" resounded in the coverts, and he was routed from his lair for a last, half-hearted chase, that ended as Melody pulled him down at a ford of the river below the woods.

Often he heard the wild, ominous cry of the huntsman, "Eloa-in-hoick, hoick--hoick, cover--hoick!" as the hounds dashed into the furze; and the loud "Tally-ho!" as he himself, or, perchance, a less fortunate neighbour, broke into sight before the loud-tongued pack.

The whips crept to the sides to view; The Master gave the nod, and "Leu, Leu in, Ed-hoick, Ed-hoick, Leu in," Went Robin, cracking through the whin And through the hedge-gap into cover.