Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Hold; habitation; place of resort.
- noun A clutch or grasp.
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This jelopy has hauld ovr l00 deer from the woods.
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"But you'll find it all right now, with the helm amidships, and you can steer her wheriver you like; only you'll want four hands at least to hauld the spokes steady if she breaks off, as I fear she will, in this say!"
The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea Henry [Illustrator] Austin
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"Hauld, hauld, 'tis the gudeman his nainsell," shreighed Janet, when the stranger drapping the point o 'the sword, clingit till my hand, and while the scauding tear draps tricklit adoun his face prigged me to fend him.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827 Various
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'Hoots, man! hauld your silly tongue,' cried his father.
Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray
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"Hauld 'em! hauld' em!" shouts Bruce; but the weighty piscatorial mass is too much for us, it will drag us desperately along the deck to the stern of the vessel.
Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens
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And yet I suspect I am like the sick fox; and if my strength and twenty years could come back, I would become again a copy of my namesake, remembered by the sobriquet of Walter ill tae hauld
Selected English Letters Various 1913
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An auld woman niver knows how to hauld her tongue.
Charred Wood Francis Clement Kelley 1909
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But there would be fowk there to hauld them company, and the lads to egg them on; and this thing was its lee-lane.
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