hause
See also: Hause
English edit
Etymology edit
A variant, like hawse (“part of a vessel's bow containing hawseholes”), of Middle English halse (“neck”); see hawse for more.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
hause (plural hauses)
- (nautical) Obsolete form of hawse.
- (Scotland, Northern England) A col, a lower neck or ridge between two peaks: a mountain pass.
Further reading edit
- 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 edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
hause
- inflection of hausen:
Scots edit
Etymology edit
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Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
hause (plural hauses)
Derived terms edit
- hausebane (“collarbone”)
- hauselock (“the wool on a sheep's neck”)
- hause-pipe (“throat, windpipe”)
Verb edit
hause (third-person singular simple present hauses, present participle hausin, simple past haused, past participle haused)