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 66 THE DIALECT OF Hooker in, ah. a traveller, or other person, who is accostomed to stand outside merchants' warehouses to inyite customers to enter. A merry friend of mine was in the habit of alluding to one of these gentlemen as * the Judicious Hooker.^ Hooned (pronounced hooined)^ pt, harassed ; overworked. Hoop (pronounced as usual), ah. a fioger-ring. Shakespere so uses the word — Merchant of Venice, Act V. sc. i : Portia. A quarrel, ho, alreadv f what's the matter ? Oratiano. About a heiop of gold, a paltry ring. Hoop for a barrel, sometimes called a garth. Hoop for a wheel, generally called a tire. Hopper, or Hoppet, ah. A sowing hoppet is a basket made of wicker-work^ uieied for sowing corn, &c. ; a bee hoppet is a bee-hivec Bay says a hoppet is a hand-basket. [The same as M.E. hoper, a basket; P. Plowman, B, vi. 63.— W. W. S.] Hoptemse (pronounced temce), ah. a hop sieve. Bay has temae. Hopy, perhaps the same as hohhy^ ah. a child's name for a horse, or for a toy-horse. In one glossary spelt howpy. Hopy dob, used in the same sense as hopy at Holmfirth, &c. Hoste. See Hoaat, and Hanst. Hotch, or Hntoh, ah. a bout, or turn. ' Give him a hotch over.' [The same as AtfcA.— W. W. S.] Hotoh, or Hatch, vh. to move on a seat without lifting oneself ; also to g^ve a slight lift to one getting over a wall, &o. Hound, pronounced haaiid^ or yaand. Formerly these dogs were much kept in Almondbury, and when one sat on his haunches and barked upward in the dead of the night, it was considered to be a warning of death. House (pronounced haaa, or yaa8)y especially signifies the kitchen, or the common room in whid^ the family usually sit. Housings (pronounced haaaingz — a sharp)^ the lower edges of a roof or eavesings. It is clear that this word is a corruption of ' eavesings,' though the people here suppose it to be derived from ' house,' and pronounce it accordingly. However, pronounced haaiwer, or yaaiwer. How go f Although the people hereabout do not pofess to be very polite, some are undoubtedly civil, and will occasionally salute each other in the above form, instead of saying, * How d'ye do ? ' Hubbling, pi. stuttering. Hudstone, ah. the hob, or hobstone, of the fireplace.