40 HA&tPSHIRE GLOSSARY. Hag-berry, Hogberry [hag-ber'i, hog-ber'i], ah. the beny of the wnite-thom. See aboya — Wise. Haggilfl [hag'ilz], ah. pi. haws of the white-thorn, K Hants. — ^Wise. Haggises [hagisuz], ah. pi. hips ; the berries of the dog-iose (Boaa canina). — ^F. M. Haggle [hag'l], v. to stand hard in dealing. — Cooper. Hagler [hag'lur], av. a farm-servant ; a handy man.- Haloups pial'kups], ah. pi. marsh-marigolds {(JaUka paluatrua). Galled also gold-cupa. — Wise. Hakker [haknir], t;. to tremble with passion. *Ak. I^ever used in this sense in Korth Hants. It probably means to be in such a passion that a person hackers (stammers) with rage. — W. £L C. See Hacker. Halm [hauml, ah. the stalks of beans, peas, &c. Cooper has it under the name ' haum^* which is the uniyeraal pronunciation in N. Hants. Cf. A.S. hea2m. •Ak. Hame [haiml, ah. small pieces ; in the phrase ' all to hame^ all to bits, said cf broken glass. Perhaps irom wheat running 'to halm* nronounced haim. — Wise, New For eat. It is never so pronounced in North Hants. Hames [haimz],^6. pi. the pieces of wood or metal attached to the collar of a horse, and to which the traces are attached. *Ak. has it Hand [hand], ah. performance, part, share. Ex. 'I had no hand in it.' Handbolts [hand'boalts], ah. pi. handcuffs. — ^Wise. Handy [hand-i], adj. skilful, clever. *Ak. Com. HaxLgers piangmrz], ah. pi. downs or hills. The Hangera near Bishop's Waltham are a line of downs on the road to Winchester. Somner in his Dictionary quotes from the book of Abingdon a passage relative to the passage of Onut's army in 1015 : — ' & ferd to Lundene eal be noriSan Temese * & swa at )>uruh Glseighan^ran.' Clcdghangre is Clay-hill, in the parish of Wotton, Hertfordshire. — F. M. Cooper defines it as ' a hanging wood on a declivity of a hLU.' Barnes nas ' hangen^ the sloping side of a hiU, called by the Germans ein ahhang^ which iB much more satisfactory. ' These hangers are woods on tibe sides of very steep hills. The trees and underwood hang^ in some sort, instead of standing on it. Hence these places are called hangers.^ — Cobbett's Mural Rides, p. 87.^ Hanker [hank'ur], v. a. to wish. Always used with the preposition
- after ' suffixed. Ex. * To hanker after a thing ' = to wiah for it.-^
N. H. Haps [haps] ah. a hasp. A.S. hcapa. ♦Ak. ^ Oobbett, though not a Hampshire man, was bom and broii^ht up in a parish adjacent to the boundary j lived much in the county; ana must have been familiar with its dialect
