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ha'penny | A coin worth half of one old penny
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hackneys¹ | hackney
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hack¹ | A horse used for hire Also: an inferior or worn out horse, a nag [OED]
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hads¹ | Goes well, reliably, unchanged [Dictionary of the Scots Language]
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hagwilletts |
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Half seas over(1) | Drunk
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Half-a-crown² | Two shillings and six pence or a coin to that value.
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hall¹ | Servants' Hall: A common room for domestic workers in a great house [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servants%27_hall]
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hammer lane¹ | John 'Hammer' Lane - (1815-1882) Prize fighter born near Wolverhampton. Listed as an innkeeper, in Moor Street, Birmingham in 1841 [https://www.blackcountrymuse.com/apps/forums/topics/show/6808196-bare-knuckle-boxing-]
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hanging in chains | Those who had been sentenced to death by Admiralty courts were executed at Execution Dock. In the cases of the most notorious offenders, the Admiralty would order that their bodies were to be tarred and hung in chains at either Cuckold's Point or Blackwall Point.
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hank¹ | Length of rope
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hap¹ | The OED gives "To wrap a garment (also bedding, etc.) round (a person), esp. for warmth; (also) to tuck up (in bed). Also in figurative contexts. In modern use freq. with up." So probably a garment taht could be wrapped around a person.
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Harrowº | A private school for boys - charging high fees and patronised by the upper classes [CPB]
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hauve(1) | meaning not known
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hay-cock¹ |
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headblock | An illustration placed at the top of a broadside. Usually a woodcut.
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healds | Meaning not known Presumably part of a power loom.
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helps¹ | servants [OED]
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helter skelter¹ | Disorderly haste or headlong confusion [OED]
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Henry Bell | Henry Bell (1767–1830) Scottish engineer known for introducing the first successful passenger steamboat service in Europe
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