What's the difference between bassock and hassock?
Bassock
Definition:
(n.) A hassock. See 2d Bass, 2.
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Hassock
Definition:
(n.) A rank tuft of bog grass; a tussock.
(n.) A small stuffed cushion or footstool, for kneeling on in church, or for home use.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the moment the trains are so unreliable you never know what time that will be.” (* not her real name ) ‘The strikes just add to a dreadful service’ Facebook Twitter Pinterest Mark King Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian Mark King , who works in marketing and commutes into the City each day from his home in Hassocks, West Sussex, says that seconds after the alarm clock goes off he routinely checks the National Rail app to see whether his train is delayed or cancelled altogether.
(2) As Runcie is the son of an archbishop of Canterbury, the Radio Times should be spared letters about the cassocks and hassocks being wrong for the period.