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 WEST CORNWALL GLOSSARY. 29 slate quarries at Delabole/' T. Q. Couch. Hollow-pot, a loud-talking per- son. Hollow -work, in embroidery, open-work. Holm, the holly. Holm scritch, the missel-thrush. Holster, a retreat or hold for anything. J. W. Home, Horn'. " Shut koine the door.'* Put home, v. to escort home. Homer, homeward. " The hoTner fields." Honey Pin, a peculiar sweet apple. Bottrell. Hoop, a bullfinch. Hoot, V. to bray like a donkey. " A bad hoot,'' a bad job. " That's a bad hoot, says Madison." Hootin cough, whooping cough. Hoozy, adj. hoarse. " Tm very hoozy" Oiay. **Tm oUy, so that I can hardly speak.'* St. Just, T. 0. Homy-wink, a lapwing ; plover. Horrywink, Couch. Homy-wink, "a toad. An old tumble - down house has been revilingly described as an old shabrag horny-wink place." H. J., Boyal Institute of Cornwall. Homy-winky, adj, " desolate ; outlandish; like a moor where homwinks or lapwings resort; thence a tumble -down house might be so called." J. W. Horse, a fault in the rock; a piece of matrix rising in a lode (vein) of metal, throwing it out of its course. '*The lode has taken horsed Horse-adder, the dragon-fly: so called because it is supposed to sting horses. Hosgld, a hogshead. Housel of goods, houseful, or a furnished house. Morvah, T. C. Hove, V, heave ; threw. " I hove my ball over the waU." ** 'WTiy did you heave it so highP" "Heft it upon the ground," f. e. heaved. St Just, T. 0. Huccaner, a wood comer, Hneksen, the knuckles. " Muck (dirt) up to the AwcA*«cn." Hulster, Holt, a hold or retreat. for snails." T. (i. Couch. Hulster, v, to harbour. " How dare you huUter my daughter here?" Hummock, a stout, unwieldy woman. Hungry, adj, greedy; stingy. Hunk, Hunch, a large piece. ''A hunk of bread and cheese." Hurle, the filament of flax. " As dry as hurle,'* Hurling, a Cornish game played with a ball. The players are divided into two equal parties, each of which tries to secure and keep the ball in their possession. The prize is one made of cork covered with silver. ** Fair play is good play" is the hurfers* motto. Hurly-burly, a scramble. "A hurly^hurly for nuts." Hurried, p, p. as adj. frightened ; startled. " I was bra'ly hurried when I heard of it" " What's your hurry ? " johr, why are you going? Hurted, v. imp, "murder com- mitted, but nobody hurted." Hurts, whortleberries. Hush-a-bit, phr. go gently. Hushed out (pron, hoosh), v. imp, turned out by a slight noise. "They hushed the hen out of the nest."
 * This rubbish is only a hulster
 * He's as hungry as the grave."