Meaning of "Mocker."

To-day I went into the cottage of an old man, in the village of which I am curate, and finding him about to cut up some wood, and he being very infirm, I undertook the task for him, and chopped up a fagot for his fire. During the progress of my work, the old fellow made the following observation:— "Old Nannie Hawkins have got a big stick o' wood, and she says as I shall have him for eight pence. If I could get him, I'd soon *mocker* him." Upon my asking him the meaning of the word *mocker*, he informed me it meant to *divide* or *cleave in pieces;* but, not being "a scholar" as he termed it, h…