See also: Hause

English

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Etymology

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A variant, like hawse (part of a vessel's bow containing hawseholes), of Middle English halse (neck); see hawse for more.

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Noun

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hause (plural hauses)

  1. (nautical) Obsolete form of hawse.
  2. (Scotland, Northern England) A col, a lower neck or ridge between two peaks: a mountain pass.

Further reading

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  • Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933. "hause, hawse (hǭs). Sc. and north. dial. [mod. northern dial. form of HALSE neck, used in a special sense.] A narrower and lower neck or connecting ridge between two heights or summits; a col."

German

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈhaʊ̯zə]
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Verb

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hause

  1. inflection of hausen:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
    3. singular imperative

Scots

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [hɑːs], [hɔːs]
  • (Northern Scots, Insular Scots) IPA(key): [haːs]

Noun

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hause (plural hauses)

  1. (anatomy) neck, throat, gullet
  2. (geography) defile, narrow passage between hills, the head of a pass

Derived terms

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Verb

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hause (third-person singular simple present hauses, present participle hausin, simple past haused, past participle haused)

  1. to hug, embrace, take in one's arms