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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.
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.
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
adj. Having an appitite
heckabirnie,
heckabirnie [I. ˈhɛkəˈbɪrnɪ]
n. A lean, feeble creature.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
n. pl. heddles Wires through which the warp is passed in a loom.
heck, hedge, privie, privy, rabbin-rin-the-hedge, rabin-rin-the-hedge, robin_rin-the-hedge, Robin-run-the-hedge,
hedge [hɛdʒ]
n. A hedge.
dim. hedgie The dunnock Prunella modularis, also WC. hedger.
n. A hedge.
dim. hedgie The dunnock Prunella modularis, also WC. hedger.
Compounds and phrases etc.
privie hedge: A privet hedge Ligustrum vulgare.
rabbin-rin-the-hedge: WC. The cleavers Galium aparine.
rabbin-rin-the-hedge: WC. The cleavers Galium aparine.
heddimoo, hedemu, hedimoo, hedimou,
hedimou [I.Sh. ˈhɛdɪmu]
n. A heat mirage.
n. A heat mirage.
hee-haa, heehaw, hee-haw, he-haw,
hee-haw [hiː hɑː, hɔː]
n. col. Nothing at all.
n. col. Nothing at all.