Glossary list
Glossaries
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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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| hewer¹ | A hewer is a coal face worker who digs coal. Reference:
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| highland fling | A vigorous solo dance involving much jumping based on traditional dances of the Scottish Highlands
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| hingy¹ | Meaning uncertain: probably India. The text rhymes hingy with dingy (dindjee) suggesting a pronunciation of hindjee. See [Note 621.8] [CPB]
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| hinnies¹ | Dear friends
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| hinny | A term of endearment, a corruption of honey
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| Hob-nail |
A nail with massive head and short tang, used for protecting the soles of heavy boots and shoes. [OED]
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| Hob-nailed(1) | Fitted with hob-nails. See Hob-nail
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| Hobart |
Hobart, Tasmania. Site of a penal colony to which criminals were transported from 1833, until the 1850s
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| hollo | a call to excite attention [OED
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| homnibus |
Omnibus
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| homnibus(1) | Omnibus
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| Hook (2) |
To seize by stealth; to steal, pilfer (OED)
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| hooked² | Secured, caught [OED] |
| Hooked¹ |
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| hooks(1) |
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