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  • hollow
    [Krio idem (Hancock p.c.); OED idem, to shout, with variant holler (more frequent in US)] v. to shout: 1918 He
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  • hole-in-the-wall
    [W3, a small and insignificant place; the name of a settlement on Abaco] n. a style of plaiting STRAW1, leaving
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  • hole
    n. 1. [cf. CAVE-HOLE and Scots hole cover, shelter CSD, from an older form akin to German Höhle cave] cave:
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  • holding: I holding
    [cf. OED hold to maintain one's position (against an adversary): to endure] phr. (in response to "How are you?") I'm
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  • hold (2)
    in various idioms: hold back. See HAUL BACK. hold down [Car.] phr. to rape. (Black) hold up [OED, to keep from falling] phr.
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  • hold (1)
    v. 1. [OED, to occupy, be in (a place): 1704 "One who holds the very next aparment"] to be temporarily
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  • hoist
    See HICE. 1146. hice, hist, hyst, h'ist
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  • hog up
    v. 1. [Belize idem (Dayley); cf. OED hog to appropriate greedily, US slang] to eat greedily, taking mor than is
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  • hog-sty, hog-style
    [from merger of sty(e) inflamed swelling at the margin of an eyelid, and sty(e) pen for swine; second form influenced
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  • hog potato
    n. a vine (Ipomea sp?) with tubers from which starch is made: We's call it hog potato. Had to dig
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