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  • hooker
    [cf. HOOK v. and Scots HOOKER a reaper, one who wields a sickle CSD] n. a man who collects sponges
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  • hook (2)
    n. a long pole with a metal hook for gathering sponges from the sea floor: I got my hooks right
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  • hook (1)
    [Car.; cf. DJE hook hoop, vine sp. from hoop a ring, but cf. Sp. bejuco /behúuko/ vine sp.; cf. Bah.
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  • hongry
    /hóhnggri/ [cf. US Blak "Hungry is to be just hungry; hongry is to be famished" (Johnson 1972: 143); also US
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  • honeycomb cowfish
    [from its hexagonal spots] n. a fish, Acanthostracion polygonius: 1968 (Böhlke 680). cf. COWFISH, ROCK SPOT FIsh (Black)
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  • honeycomb
    [OED, attributive: resembling honey-comb] n. a kind of rock, which is the residue of honeycomb coral. (San Sal.)
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  • honey
    [OED, a preparation consisting of the expressed juice of dates or other fruit of palm trees] n. the natural syrup
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  • hominy
    [DAE, from rockahominy, of Algonquinian origin...the hulled kernels of Indian corn, either broken up into a coarse meat or whole]
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  • home-boy
    [also US Black (Major); cf. Haitian neg la kay (lit, home person) idem (L. Emile p.c.); cf. SA home boy
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  • holt
    [Gul. idem (Gonzales 1924:88); cf. Brit. dial. Mid, South holt grasp OED; also US dial. South WEA] n. (in wrestling)
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