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hause en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /hɔːs/ (UK)

Etymology

A variant, like hawse (“part of a vessel's bow containing hawseholes”), of Middle English halse (“neck”); see hawse for more.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, obsolete) Obsolete form of hawse.
   alt of hawse
2. (Northern-England, Scotland) A col, a lower neck or ridge between two peaks: a mountain pass.

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