Hattock

[Scot.] An English provincial term for a shock or sheaf of unthreshed grain; as, a hattock of barley. Hatt's Shop, in Georgia , a village of Talbot co. Hau'berk, n. [O. Ger. halsberge ; A. S. healsborg , from heals, the neck, and be organ , to cover.] A piece of armor, supposed to be of German origin, common in the chain mail , or rather ringed mail , of the 12th century; being a jacket or tunic, with wide sleeves reaching a little below the elbow, the hood being of one piece with it. The H. of ringed mail ceased to be worn about the reign of Henry III. of England, when the Oriental chain-mail, properly so called, came into fashion for a short period. In France, only persons po e ed of a certain estate called un fief de hauber , were permitted to wear a H. , which was the armor of a knight; esquires wore only a simple coat of mail without the hood and hose. Haub's tadt, in Indiana, a post-village of Gibson co., about 18 m. N. of Evansville.