The Prisoner of Zenda (40 page)

hamlet
NOUN
a hamlet is a small village or a group of houses in the countryside
down from the hamlet
(
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson)

hand-barrow
NOUN
a hand-barrow is a device for carrying heavy objects. It is like a wheelbarrow except that it has handles, rather than wheels, for moving the barrow
his sea chest following behind him in a hand-barrow
(
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson)

handspike
NOUN
a handspike was a stick which was used as a lever
a bit of stick like a handspike
(
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson)

haply
ADV
haply means by chance or perhaps
And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne
(
Ode on a Nightingale
by John Keats)

harem
NOUN
the harem was the part of the house where the women lived
mostly they hang round the harem
(
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain)

hautboys
NOUN
hautboys are oboes
sausages and puddings resembling flutes and hautboys (
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift)

hawker
NOUN
a hawker is someone who sells goods to people as he travels rather than from a fixed place like a shop
to buy some stockings from a hawker
(
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson)

hawser
NOUN
a hawser is a rope used to tie up or tow a ship or boat
Again among the tiers of
shipping, in and out, avoiding rusty chain-cables, frayed hempen hawsers
(
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens)

headstall
NOUN
the headstall is the part of the bridle or halter that goes around a horse's head
I had of course long been used to a halter and a headstall
(
Black Beauty
by Anna Sewell)

hearken
VERB
hearken means to listen
though we sometimes stopped to lay hold of each other and hearken
(
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson)

heartless
ADJ
here heartless means without heart or dejected
I am not heartless
(
The Prelude
by William Wordsworth)

hebdomadal
ADJ
hebdomadal means weekly
It was the hebdomadal treat to which we all looked forward from Sabbath to Sabbath
(
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë)