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- noun Plural form of
heuk .
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Examples
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Beatin heuks ontae tippets an they're hingin on his chair.
The Fisherman's Wife 1992
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Beatin heuks ontae tippets = attaching hooks to leaders syne = in time
The Fisherman's Wife 1992
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Ye belang half a mile faurer up, my lad; ye'll bite aff nae mair o 'my heuks.
The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887
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They've howkit a trenk, they tell me, 'at nane but a hunter on 's horse cud win ower, an' they're postit alang the toon side o ''t wi' sticks an 'stanes, an' boat heuks, an 'guns an' pistils.
The Marquis of Lossie George MacDonald 1864
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