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  • Hatchet Bay Fly
    [alluding to the files at the near-by chicken farms] n. nickname for a native of Hatchet Bay, Eleuthera. (Eleu.)
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  • harraner
    /hárana/ [from errand + er; OED, rare (1803 only)] n. messenger; errand boy. (Eleu.)
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  • harkler's club
    /háhklaz klob/ [cf. Gul. hack'lus Hercules (Gonzales 1922:305)] n. Hercules' club, a shrub: 1835 Zanthoxylum clava herculis. -- Hercules' Club
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  • harge
    /háhgi/; hargement /háhgimen/ [cf. ARGIE /hági/ argue] n. argument: 1985 Tell 'im de hargemen' B' Helephat an' 'im had ...
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  • hardwood
    [OED, wood of deciduous trees as distinguished from that of pines] n. a tree, Krugiodendron ferreum: 1905 (Shattuck 258). (Gen.)
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  • hard-(to)-pay
    [cf. W Car. hard-pay man DJE] adj. said of someone who does not repay debts: You can't trust him. He
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  • hard-to-learn
    [cf. LEARN teach] adj. lacking intelligence: That boy too hard-to-learn (Nassau). (Black)
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  • hard-skin cocobey
    [cf. COCOBEY ] n. a vine, Varronia bahamensis, which bears calabashes. cf. COCO (Adelaide)
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  • hard shoes
    [Car.] n. shoes made of leather as opposed to canvas, rubber, etc. (Gen.)
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  • hard road: give somebody hard road
    v. phr. to make someone's progress difficult: 1940 D' Norwegians is givin' [the Germans] hard road (Dupuch 109). (Exuma, San
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