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*ha'     -       to have 

hacker      -       to stammer 

hafe-baked      -      silly, half witted

hafe-char       -      doing things by halves 

hafe-soaked, hafe-strained, hafe-thick      -       half-silly,                                               without the full measure of intellect 

haggle      -      to hack unevenly "Ye munna haggle that                                  cheise!" 

*haise    -      house 

haise-keeper     -      a family heirloom, an old piece of                                            furniture

haise-pleece       -     houseplace, living room in a farmhouse 

hammil    -      to ill-treat, abuse, overwork (Anglo                                         Saxon hamelian = to maim) 

hand-booard    -      a tea-tray 

handy-bandy     -      the game where one conceals an object                                  in the hands and asks another to guess                                  which hand it is in.

handy-pungy     -      a fight with fists (fisticuffs, handy-                                          punchy?) 

hankitch     -       a handkerchief 

hansel     -      the first sale upon opening a shop or market-                           stall for the day 

hantle    -     a handfuli

*happen upon    -     to come across, to meet 

harbouration   -      a collection of anything unpleasant "My                                  sakes alive! What a harbouration                                            o'rubbitch there is in the haise" 

hard    -    (1)hardy, not sensitive to pain (2)of beer- sour 

harl    -      a small portion of straw or hay

Harry-lung-legs     -      a daddylonglegs 

has-bin      -       said of a person or animal past their prime 

hask      -        a coarse dry cough 

hatch       -      a garden gate

hattle     -       uncertain of temper 

hattock      -      a cluster of eight or more standing sheaves 

haunge      -     a large piece of meat, bread, or other eatable                         "Yo'n gen me sich a hunge o'rappit-pie; I                                 shanna be fit for noo puddin' at after" 

hawk     -       to seek or wish for in vain

hayshaker    -      quaking grass

*hearken-ait     -     listen for something 

heaze      -       cough

heazy      -        hoarse

*heckan   -       exclamation of surprise 

heckle tempered     -    ill tempered, irritable

hedgehogs    -    small stunted trees in hedgerows

heft     -     strength, heaving

hen    -       old (from the Welsh) Henbury - old settlement

hen-curn     -    literally old corn, inferior corn with which to                            feed chickens 

heng i'th' bell ropes     -       to be engaged to someone 

heng to .....     -      to heng to something or someone is to                                    have an inclination or an affection towards                              it/them

hen-hurdle    -     a hen-roost over a pig sty 

hen-scrats    -     long, straddly clouds portending rain 

hep      -       hip, berry of the dog-rose 

hep-gun     -     a pop gun from which rose hips are fired

herringbone road     -      an old cobbled road in a herringbone                                      pattern from the days of packhorses.

hidlands      -      getting out of the way to avoid being                                       arrested!

higgle, higgler     -     a market man or woman, who buys farm                                 produce to sell on 

high-kept, high-larnt    -    well kept, well educated

hill    -      to cover (related to Icelandic hylja=to hide, and                       Anglo Saxon helan) 

hillhooter    -      an owl

hinge     -     nimble, sprightly "He's hinge on 'is legs fur an                        owd mon" 

hip     -      to miss, pass over, usually used referring to                           passing over a word when reading, which one                         cannot pronounce or understand. (Middle-                               English hippen = to hop) 

hippinch    -     a cloth used to wrap a baby in 

hirple    -      v. to limp

histle    -       (1)to move something heavy across the ground,                     gradually (2)to shuffle or sidle off 

hitch      -       to depend 

Hob      -        a male ferret 

Hobbety Hoy    -       (neither man nor boy) an awkward                                           stripling

hobble     -     a scrape or a mess, "Yo'm in a hobble, nai" 

hobnob     -     off-hand 

hof     -      a foot (literally hoof, this word is used for clumsy                    feet) 

hogg      -     a heap of potatoes, covered with straw and soil                      to keep out the cold

hogget       -     a year old sheep 

hogs'-wool    -    wool taken from one-year old sheep 

hollin       -    holly (The Anglo Saxon word was holegn) 

holuns-boluns     -     recklessly and without consideration

hommer     -     hammer 

hommock    -    the leg, usually used to convey clumsiness,                           used as a verb to mean walk with a clumsy,                           shambling gait 

Homnithom, Hopmithom    -      a hop-over-my-thumb, a dwarf                                  "A regular little homnithom of a fellow" 

homper      -      to hobble, limp

honey-faw    -     a windfall, a piece of good luck 

honkazin    -      idling, lounging 

*hoo      -     she 

hoonstone   -      a stone oven door

hoorip     -     at a great rate or speed 

hooroo    -     public rejoicings of any kind (Hooray, Ho-ro,                           hurrah) 

hoo-shoo    -       go away 

hoot     -    to peep "Hootin' an' tootin' " Tooting is also                            prying

hoozy      -      lazy 

hoozy-poozy     -     wasting time 

hoppety-clink    -       used to describe the up and down walk                                   of a lame person 

hopper / hoppit    -      a basket which fastens round the waist                                  and is filled with seed for sowing                                           (Middle English word hoper = a seed                                        basket

hovel    -    the part of a smithy where horses stand to be                        shod, as opposed to the forge. 

howd howt    -     keep hold! Hold out! 

howup      -      a word used to call the cows home at milking                          time 

hucker-mucker      -      confusion, disorder

huckle off    -     to go away with a slow and halting pace 

huck up     -    to hunch the shoulders 

huddle up corn    -      make corn into sheaves

hudlance     -     concealment "They'm tryin' keep it                                          i'hudlance, bu' folks known moor t'n they                                thinken they dun"

hufted   -      offended 

(by) hulch & stulch     -     by hook or by crook - an expression                                        of determination

humble   -      crumbly, said of ground 

hummock     -       to humbug or pester 

humpering   -    limping

humpy      -    offended (to take the hump, get the hump) 

*hups!     -      fie! 

hush shop    -     an unlicensed house selling beer

hutchin     -    large slice of bread

huzz / huzzbuzz    -     a row, argument

huzzicky     -     hay which is matted together and mouldy 

huzzif    -     a needle case (literally, a housewife)