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  • hard cheese
    n. a particular kind of cheese remembling cheddar, often sold unwrapped by weight. (Black)
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  • hard brown
    adj. (of food) burned, dried up: 1980 (Watson 17).
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  • hard basket
    n. a basket of woven STRAW that is stiff and free-standing. (Adelaide)
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  • hard back
    /hahd bak/, hard bark /hand bahk/ n. a tree, Thouinia discolor, whose bark is boiled into a medicinal infusion: 1977
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  • hard-a-port
    [OED, to the extreme left nautical; a brand name?] n. a kind of tobacco: 1977 For toothache, a piece of
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  • hard
    adj. 1. [from the stiffness of heavy cloth dried under a tropical sun] (of clothes on a line) dry: Pick
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  • Harbour Island cotton
    [from the name of a cay off Eleuthera] n. a variety of cotton, Gossypium sp., with reddish-brown cotton adhering to
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  • harbour
    [OED, to entertain obs. →1601] v. to invite a person into one's home: [mother to child] Don't harbour company around
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  • hant
    See HAUNT .
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  • hankicher
    /hángkcacha (Nassau, San Sal.); hankóychif (Exuma)/ [cf. Gul. hengkitchuh idem hard-head (Gonzales 1922:306), Krio engkíncha headscarf (Hancock p.c.); cf. OED
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