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bouel-hive, bouel-hives, bowel-hive, bowel-hive, bowel-hives, haave, haeve, haevin, haiv, haive, haived, haivin, haivt, have, haved, hayve, heave, heaved, heavin, heive, heivin, heuve, heuved, hieve, hievin, höv, höved, huiv, huive, huived,
heave [hiːv, heːv, S. heiv]
v. To heave, lift, come into view, rise. Throw, pitch or toss without effort. Swell, distend.
pt. heaved [ˈhiːvd, ˈheːvd, S. ˈheivd], huive [høːv, heːv, N. hiːv]
pp. heaved, huived, hoven
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
bouel heave(s): Enteritis etc. In children.
heavin [ˈhiːvɪn, ˈheːvɪn, S. ˈheivɪn]: Heaving, lifting. Throwing, pitching or tossing without effort. Swelling.
the heave: col. Dismissal from employment, the sack.
hech, hechelt, hechle, hechled, hechlet, hechult, hegh,
hech [hɛç, hiç, hɪç]
int. An exclamation of wonder.
 
hechle [hɛçl, həiçl]
n. A struggle, a difficulty.
v. To pant, walk or proceed with difficulty.
pt. pp. hechelt
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
hech ay: Indeed!
hecht,
hecht [hɛçt, hɪçt]
n. A promise, engagement.
v. To promise, vow, pledge, offer. To make promises. To prophesy, forecast. Of death: to threaten. To implore, bid.
pt. pp. hecht
Auld_Haikes, Auld_Haiks, Auld_Hecks, fish_hake, fish_heck, hack, haik, hake, heac, heck, heckan, heckane, heckeen, heckin, hek,
heck [hɛk, hek]
n. A rack, a slatted wooden or iron framework, a barred container for feeding hay etc. The toothed part of a spinning-wheel guiding the thread.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
Auld Hecks: A name given to a fishing ground off the coast of Fife.
fish heck: A weight for anchoring a fishing line or net. A triangular frame for drying fish before cooking.
heckin: NN.b. The distance the lead is raised above sea-bottom in handline fishing.
heck,
heck [hɛk]
adj. Having an appitite
heckabirnie,
heckabirnie [I. ˈhɛkəˈbɪrnɪ]
n. A lean, feeble creature.
heckla, hekla,
heckla [I.Sh. ˈhɛrklə]
n. The spiny dogfish Squalus acanthias. A fishermen's tabu-name for the skate Dipturus batis.
hackle, hackle-pins, heckelt, heckle, heckled, hecklepin, heckle-pin, hecklepins, heckle-pins, heckle-pins, hecklin,
heckle [hɛkl, hekl]
v. A hackle, a toothed comb-like implement used for dressing flax, a flax comb, sharp criticism.
v. To dress flax, to question.
pt. pp. heckelt
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
heckle-pin: One of the teeth or spikes of a heckle.
hecklin: Dressing flax.
on heckle-pins: In suspense, on tenterhooks.
teethin a heckle: Putting spikes in a hackle.
happy-candunkie, happy-kindunkie, heddercandunk, hedderkindunk, hedderkondunk, hederkandunk,
heddercandunk [I.Sh. ˈhɛdərkədʌŋk]
n. A see-saw, the game of see-saw. Anything bobbing up and down.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
happy-candunkie: I. A see-saw.
haddle, haddles, haidle, haidles, headle, headles, heddel, heddels, heddle, heddles, hedle, hedles, hiddle, hiddle, hidle, hidles,
heddle [ˈhɛdlz]
n. pl. heddles Wires through which the warp is passed in a loom.

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