_Hacker_, a hoe.
_Hagrod_, hagridden in sleep, if not under the nightmare.
_Haïn_ (5, 1), to fence in ground or shut up a field for mowing.
_Ha'me_, see _Hau'm_.
_Hangèn_, sloping ground.
_Hansel_, _Handsel_, a hand gift.
_Hansel_, _Handsel_, to use a new thing for the first time.
_Happer_, to hop up as hailstones or rain-drops from ground or pavement
in a hard storm, or as down-shaken apples; to fall so hard as to
hop up at falling.
_Haps_, a hasp.
_Ha'skim_, halfskim cheese of milk skimmed only once.
_Hassen_, hast not.
_Haum_, _Haulm_, _Hulm_, the hollow stalks of plants. _Teätie haum_
potatoe stalks.
_Hatch_, a low wicket or half door.
_Haÿmeäkèn_, haymaking.
The steps of haymaking by hand, in the rich meadow lands of Blackmore,
ere machines were brought into the field, were these:--The grass being
mown, and laying in _swath_ it was (1) _tedded_, spread evenly over
the ground; (2) it was _turned_ to dry the under side; (3) it was in
the evening raked up into _rollers_, each roller of the grass of the
stretch of one rake, and the rollers were sometimes put up into hay
cocks; (4) in the morning the rollers were cast abroad into _pa'sels_
(parcels) or broad lists, with clear ground between each two; (5) the
parcels were turned, and when dry they were pushed up into _weäles_
(weales) or long ridges, and, with a fear of rain, the weäles were put
up into _pooks_, or big peaked heaps; the waggon (often called the
_plow_) came along between two weäles or rows of pooks, with two
loaders, and a pitcher on each side pitched up to them the hay of his
side, while two women raked after plow, or raked up the leavings of
the pitchers, who stepped back from time to time to take it from them.
_Hazen_, to forebode.
_Hazzle_, hazel.
_Heal_ (2), hide, to cover.
_Heal pease_, to hoe up the earth on them.
_Heän_ (1, 4), a haft, handle.
_Heft_, weight.
_Herence_, hence.
_Here right_, here on the spot, etc.
_Het_, heat, also a heat in running.
_Het_, to hit.
_Heth_, a hearth, a heath.
_Hick_, to hop on one leg.
_Hidelock_, _Hidlock_, a hiding place. "He is in hidelock." He is
absconded.
_Hidybuck_, hide-and-seek, the game.
_Hile of Sheaves_, ten, 4 against 4 in a ridge, and 1 at each end.
_Ho_, to feel misgiving care.
_Hodmadod_, a little dod or dump; in some parts of England a snail.
_Holm_, ho'me, holly.
_Hook_, to gore as a cow.
_Honeyzuck_, honeysuckle.
_Ho'se-tinger_, the dragon-fly, _Libellula_. _Horse_ does not mean a horse,
but is an adjective meaning coarse or big of its kind, as in
horse-radish, or horse-chesnut; most likely the old form of the
word gave name to the horse as the big beast where there was not
an elephant or other greater one. The dragon-fly is, in some parts
called the "tanging ether" or tanging adder, from _tang_,
a long thin body, and a sting. Very few Dorset folk believe that
the dragon-fly stings horses any more than that the horse eats
horse-brambles or horse-mushrooms.
_Hud_, a pod, a hood-like thing.
_Ho'se_, hoss, a board on which a ditcher may stand in a wet ditch.
_Huddick_ (hoodock), a fingerstall.
_Hull_, a pod, a hollow thing.
_Humbuz_, a notched strip of lath, swung round on a string, and humming
or buzzing.
_Humstrum_, a rude, home made musical instrument, now given up.