Folk-Speech of Cumberland and Some Districts Adjacent / Being Short Stories and Rhymes in the Dialects of the West Border Counties

by Alexander Craig Gibson

H.

Hag, C, to cut with an axe.

“He was seun back, wid his axe ower his shooder, an’ begon to hag his way through t’ deurr.”

Dickinson. Lamplugh Club.

Hag-worm, C, the viper.

“Theear was beears, an’ lions, an’ tigers ... an’ girt yedtheran hag-werms, fower or five yerds lang.”

Rev. T. Clarke. Johnny Shippard.

Hake, C, a riotous festivity, tumult.

“They drank the yell up ivery drop,

Wid nowder hake nor quarrel.”