Page:Glossary of words in use in Cornwall.djvu/197

 54 ANTRIM AND DOWN GLOSSARY. Hovel, sh, the Btand on which a com rick is bnilt. Hovel-cap, sb, the broad stone, or piece of iron, laid on the top of each pillar of a ' hoyeP to preyent rat8> &c., from climbing np to the grain. How-an'-divir, however. 'How are you comin' onT how do you do? How do you oome on t how do you do ? How do you get your health 1 a common salutation, meaning how do you do ? Howziver, however. Hulge, any large unshapely mass. ' A hulge of a horse,* a loose- limbed horse. Same as * a wallop of a horse.' Hum, ah. a morsel of food masticated by a nurse, and then put into an infant's mouth. Hummin', v. feeding a child with Miums.' Humplock, 8h. a shapeless heap : applied to a badly-built hayrick. Hung^. ' A hungry eye sees far,' saying. Hung^ grass, sh. some plant When a person treads on it in the fields he is seized with an intolerable hunger and weakness. A crop of hungry grass is said to spring up if persons who have dined in the fields do not throw some of the fragments away for the fairies. Hungry heart, sh. an empty, craving stomach* Hungry land, poor, sandy soil. Hunk^, V, to crouch on the ground with the heels under the haras. Hunkers. ' To sit on one's hunkers^ is the same as ^ to hunker.' Huntagowk, sh, a person sent on a fool's errand. Hunter, sh, A cat Ihat is a good mouser is a hunter. * Her mother was a right hunUr : ' said of a kitten. Hup, a call to a horse to go on ; a call to a horse to go to the right or off side. Hup ! hup ! a car-driver's cry to get out of the way. Hurlbassey, sb. a star which when it is seen near the moon foretells stormy weather. — McSKiMUf's Hist Carrick/ergua. Hurly, (1) sb. a game ; hockey. Same as Shinney or Common. (2) $h, a long, low cart with two wheels. Hurly burly, sb. a boys' game. In it the following rhyme is used : The cow stands in the market-place ; Some goes far, and some goes near, Where shall this poor idnner steer ? •
 * Hurly-burly y trumpy trace ;