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hook is ower h., the hook is too small. U^wg. Obscure origin.

hjokl, hjokel [hjɔkəl, hjåkəl], vb., to tie up one of the forelegs of an animal, esp. that of a sheep, to prevent it from running; to h. a sheep. Occas. with guttural sound hjochl, hjochel [hjɔχəl, hjåχəl], doubtless through infl. of the word “hoch [‘hough’]” in “to hoch-bend”, to tie the foreleg of an animal to the hough. — *hœkla, vb., from O.N. hœkill, m., knee-joint, hough; cf. No. høkla, vb. n., to walk bent. See hobend, vb.

hjoklarigg [hjɔk··larɩg·] and hjokelsrigg [hjɔk··əlsrɩg·], sb., the fore-most curved part of a swine’s back, = hjogeldarigg, etc. hjoklarigg: Y^h. hjokelsrigg: U. occas. hjokla- may here well be explained from O.N. axlar, gen. sing. of ǫxl, f., the shoulder. A form hjogel, for *hjok(e)l from ǫxl, is found in the compd. hjogelben, sb.; q.v. A form hjogelrigg [hjō··gəlrɩg·], prop. characteristic of U., may stand either for hjogeldarigg, hjogelesrigg or for hjokel(s)rigg.

hjoklet [hjɔklət, hjåklət], hjuklet [hjoklət], adj., crooked; ill-shaped; of a strange, repulsive appearance; a h.-lookin’ body [‘person’]. Y. [hjɔklət, hjåklət; Y^b.: hjoklət]. *hœklóttr or *hyklóttr, adj., bent; really having crooked knees; cf. No. høkla and hykla, vb., to walk with crooked knees.

hjolk [hjå‘lk], vb., to catch hold of, cleverly, to h. onyting [‘something’], h. him (de fish) op! take in the fish quickly! (in fishing with hand-line). Uⁿ. Prob. syn. with No. holka, vb., in sense of to start off; drive on (with awkward violence).

hjolkinsten [hjå‘l··kɩnsten·], sb., a flat stone, lintel-stone at the top of the mouth of a kiln, the innermost edge of which projects into the kiln

space, protecting the corn, spread on the laths, from the fire in the kiln. Uⁿ. hjolk- prob. replaces holk-, poss. in sense of knot, lump; see holk³, sb., and cf. the synonym hjolpinsten, in which hjolp- appears to contain a similar root-meaning.

hjolpins [hjɔ‘lpɩns], sb. pl., holes and rents in a garment. Fe. Is scarcely a compd. with O.N. hol, n., a hole. Rather a metaphor, applied jokingly: hollows? cf. poss. No. hylp, m., inter alia appl. to a deep object.

hjolpinsten [hjɔ‘l··pɩnsten·, hjå‘l··pɩnsten·], sb., projecting stone inside at the top of the mouth of a kiln, = hjolkinsten; q.v. U^{n., burr.}; Y^h.; Nm^s. hjolp- may poss. be referred, partly to Fær. hölpur, m., knot, lump, partly to No. hylp, m., inter alia clumsy object (too deep vessel, etc.). There is, however, also a form kjolpinsten, in which kjolp- refers to another word; see further under kilpersten, kelpersten, kelpinsten, which words are the general designations for the stone described under hjolkinsten. — The forms hjilpersten [hjɩ‘l··pərsten·] (Conn.), hjelpersten [hjɛ‘l··pərsten·] (Conn.) and hjelpinsten [hjɛ‘l··pɩnsten·] (Esh., Nm^w., U^wg.) might replace an older *hilpersten, and in that case the first part of the compd. doubtless points back to an original *hylpr, m., which prop. has had the same meaning as *kilpr or *kylpr from which kilpersten, kelpersten have arisen. — The form hjalpinsten [hja‘l··pɩnsten·] is reported from Wh. and L., from Wests. with dropped h: jalpinsten [ja‘l··pɩnsten·] and in Fo. is found jalpersten [ja‘l··pərsten·], prob. from original *hilpinsten, *hilpersten.

*hjolsa and *hjolskin [hjå‘lskɩn], sb., properly health, but only handed down in the following expletive term: