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small horse (Eng. hackney, sb.), but assimilates to the foll. hokni², sb. With the form hokner there is the peculiarity that it is (was) still partly remembered as the old pl. form of hokken, hokni (O.N. -ar, -ir: pl. ending); but hokner is now mostly used in the sing., and hokners in the pl. Cf. the relation between skekel and skekler (skeklers),

hokl, hokkel [hɔkəl, håkəl], vb., to gut and clean a fish. to h. fish. Poss. for *holk (by metathesis of l and k) from and old *holka, vb., to hollow out. Cf. Eng. hulk, vb., and see holk¹ (hokk), sb. and vb.

hokni² [håkni], sb., a greedy, voracious person or animal. Y.; Fe. Deriv. of hoken, hokken, adj.

hol¹ [hōl, hō^əl], sb., a young coalfish, esp. a two- (or thre-) year-old coalfish, comm. in the compd. hol-piltek [pʌ‘ltək]. U., Y^{h., n}. hol for older *ol, either (and rather) = O.N. áll, m., an eel, or = O.N. vǫlr, m., a cylinder, round stick — in both cases alluding to the longish, narrow shape of the fish. Cf. ol in ollek = No. vallonga, f., a young ling. hol-piltek thus prob. from an original *ál (or *val)-piltr (piltungr).

hol² [hɔl], sb., a hole, O.N. hol, n.

hol [hɔl], vb., 1) to hole, O.N. hola, vb.; in Shetl. in a special sense: a) to make a hole in a sheep’s ear, to h. a lug (Fe.); b) to cause openings in the clouds; he is holin [hɔlɩn] de sky, there are clear spaces appearing in the cloud-covered sky (Y^h.). 2) to hollow out, to h. ut, = O.N. hola, vb., to make hollow.

holberd [hɔlbərd, hȯlbərd], holbert [hɔlbərt, hȯlbərt], adj. and sb.: I) adj., fleshy; full-figured; a h. craeter’ [‘creature’] (Wh.). A deriv. holberdli [hȯl··bərdli·] is reported from Wh., used partly of inanimate objects, e.g. holberdli stens, big,

shapeless stones. II) sb., a big, full-figured person; a big, fleshy creature; a h. o’ a fellow, o’ a “quey” (a heifer). Occas. of inanimate objects: holberds o’ stens, big, shapeless stones (Wh.). — The pronunc. “hɔlbərd, hɔlbərt” is reported from Wests. (Ai.); elsewhere more comm.: hȯlbərd, hȯlbərt. — A form halbert [haᶅbərt, häᶅbərt] is reported from N.I., esp. as a substantive; a h. o’ a man, o’ a wife [‘woman’]. — O.N. holdborinn and *holdbærr, adj., fleshy, stout, a meaning not handed down, but found again in No. holdboren and holdbær, hollberin, adj. (O.N. “holdborinn” is handed down in sense of closely related, e.g. a natural brother, from hold, n., flesh). Cf. halderin, sb.

holg [hɔlg, hålg], sb., hollow sea; commotion in the sea with short, high-crested waves; der ’r [‘there is’] a h. i’ de sea. Fo. In the same place also olg [ȯᶅg], a o. o’ a sea, of agitated, crested sea. Different words? With holg it is most reasonable to compare No. “holga sjø”, hollow sea, and holga, vb., to make hollow sea, topping sea; cf. below holk¹, sb. and vb., and holkin, sb. olg may be either an orig. *holg-, or = Icel. ólga, f., swell, ólgusjór, m., agitated, billowy sea. Just as holk¹, sb., commotion in the sea, seems to be associated with *hulk, unevenness, knots (Shetl. holk, sb., knot, hunch), so there might be a similar association between holg and L.Sc. hulg, hulgie, sb., knot, hunch.

holgin [hȯlgin, hȯᶅgin (hɔ̇ᶅgin)], sb., a tall, big, imposing fellow. N.I. Also a big, raw-boned, clumsy person, a h. o’ a fellow, o’ a dog (Fe.). Prop. a bundle of straw, wisp of straw (or bundle, wisp of hay), and the same word as No. holge (halge), m., a bundle of straw or hay, which may be used meta-