Humstrum. A home-made fiddle (S.). Sometimes applied also to a large kind of Jew's-harp.—S.W.
Hunch about. To push or shove about.—S.W.
*Hunder-stones. Thunder-bolts (Aubrey's Wilts, Roy. Soc. MS.). Probably either belemnites, or else the concretionary nodules of iron pyrites, called 'thunder-bolts' by the labourers, are here intended. See Thunder-stones.
Hunked. See Unked (A.H.).
Hurdle-footed. Club-footed.—S.W.
Hurdle-shore. The same as Fold-shore.—S.W.
Hurkle. To crowd together, as round the fire in cold weather. An old form of hurtle.
'Hurtelyn, as too thyngys togedur (al. hurcolyn, hurchyn togeder). Impingo, collido.'—Prompt. Parv. c. 1440 (Smythe-Palmer).
Husk, Hesk. A disease of the throat, often fatal to calves. See Hask.—N.W.
Husks. See Hucks.