Crossword-Solution: HOK 3 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

After breakfast the men sit down to _chin the cost_, to mend chairs or make baskets; the women go forth to _hok_ and _dukker_, and the children to beg, or to go with the donkeys to lanes and commons to watch them, whilst they try to fill their poor bellies with grass and thistles.

She was then very much changed, very much changed indeed, appearing as a full-blown Egyptian matron, with two very handsome daughters flaringly dressed in genuine Gypsy fashion, to whom she was giving motherly counsels as to the best means to _hok_ and _dukker_ the gentlefolks.

She was good at the _big hok_, that is, at inducing people to put money into her hands, in the hope of its being multiplied; and, oh dear! how she could _caur_—that is, filch gold rings and trinkets from jewellers’ cases; the kind of thing which the Spanish Gypsy women call _ustilar pastesas_, filching with the hands.

HOK LEE AND THE DWARFS Retold by Andrew Lang There once lived in a small town in China a man named Hok Lee.

This state of things went on for some time, and though a thief was caught now and then and punished, no suspicion ever fell on Hok Lee, he was such a very respectable, hard-working man.