*Hallantide. All Saints' Day (B.).
Hallege, Harrige. n. The latter seems to be the original form of the word, and is still occasionally heard; but for at least seventy years it has been more commonly pronounced as hallege, l and r having been interchanged. We have met with it at Clyffe Pypard, Bromham, Huish, and elsewhere in N. Wilts; but, so far as we know, it is not used in S. Wilts. Havage=disturbance, which the Rev. S. Baring-Gould heard once in Cornwall, and made use of in his fine West-Country romance, John Herring, ch. xxxix, is doubtless a variant of the same word. (1) Of persons, a crowd; also, contemptuously, a low rabble. 'Be you a-gwain down to zee what they be a-doing at the Veast?' 'No, I bean't a-gwain amang such a hallege as that!'—N.W. (2) Of things, confusion, disorder. Were a load of top and lop, intended to be cut up for firewood, shot down clumsily in a yard gateway, it would be said, 'What a hallege you've a-got there, blocking up the way!—N.W. (3) Hence, it sometimes appears to mean rubbish, as when it is applied to the mess and litter of small broken twigs and chips left on the ground after a tree has been cut and carried.—N.W. (4) It is also occasionally used of a disturbance of some sort, as 'What a hallege!' what a row!—N.W.
Ham. (1) A narrow strip of ground by a river, as Mill-ham (A.D.). (2) See Haulm (S.).
Hames. Pieces of wood attached to a horse's collar in drawing (A.D.).—N. & S.W.
Hanch (a broad). Of a cow or bull, to thrust with the horns, whether in play or earnest.—N.W.
Hand. (1) n. Corn has 'a good hand' when it is dry and slippery in the sack, 'a bad hand' when it is damp and rough (D.).—N.W. (2) v. To act as a second in a fight.—N.W. (3) v. 'To have hands with anything,' to have anything to do with it. 'I shan't hae no hands wi't.—N.W. See Hank.
Hand-box. See Box.
Hander. The second to a pugilist (A.). See Hand (2).—N.W.
Handin'-post. A sign-post.—N.W.