HOWLE. An old English word for the hold of a ship. When the foot-hooks or futtocks of a ship are scarphed into the ground-timbers and bolted, and the plank laid up to the orlop-deck, then they say, "the ship begins to howle."
HOY. A call to a man. Also, a small vessel, usually rigged as a sloop, and employed in carrying passengers and goods, particularly in short distances on the sea-coast; it acquired its name from stopping when called to from the shore, to take up goods or passengers. In Holland the hoy has two masts, in England but one, where the main-sail is sometimes extended by a boom, and sometimes without it. In the naval service there are gun-hoy, powder-hoy, provision-hoy, anchor-hoy, all rigged sloop-fashion.
HOYSE. The old word for hoist.
HUBBLE-BUBBLE. An eastern pipe for smoking tobacco through water, which makes a bubbling noise.
HUDDOCK. The cabin of a keel or coal-barge.
"'Twas between Ebbron and Yarrow,
There cam on a varry strong gale;
The skipper luicked out o' th' huddock,
Crying, 'Smash, man, lower the sail!'"
HUDDUM. The old northern term for a kind of whale.
HUER. A man posted on an elevation near the sea, who, by concerted signals, directs the fishermen when a shoal of fish is in sight. Synonymous with [conder] (which see). Also, the hot fountains in the sea near Iceland, where many of them issue from the land.
HUFFED. Chagrined, offended, often needlessly.
HUFFLER. One who carries off fresh provisions to a ship; a Kentish term.