lit PROCEEDINGS. 
Helve is the term universally used for an axe handle, and as a verb 
it denotes putting a handle to that implement. 
Heft as a verb, to raise up, but especially to prove or try the weight 
of a thing by raising it, is marked in dictionaries as Provincia! English 
and Colloquial United States, but it is still used in the same sense in 
Newfoundland. Thus one returning home with a good basket of fish 
may say toa friend “heft that,’—feel the weight of it. And soasa 
noun itis used with the relative meaning of weight. 
Houseplace, the kitchen. In old English, according to Wright, it 
meant the hall, the first large room after entering the house. Halliwell 
explains it as denoting in a farm house, the kitchen or ordinary sitting 
room. It is still in ordinary use in Scotland. 
Jonnick, in Newfoundland, means honest, but according to Wright, 
in the Northamptonshire dialect it means kind or hospituble. 
Killock, an old English word used to denote a small anchor, partly 
of stone and partly of wood, still used by fishermen, but going out of 
use in favor of iron grapnels. 
Kilter, regular order or condition, ‘ out of kilter,” disordered or dis- 
arranged. Itis common in old English, but generally spelled skelter. 
Thus Barrow says, ‘‘ If the organs of prayer be out of kelter, or out of 
tune, how can we pray?’ Under the spelling ‘‘ kilter,” it is common in 
New England. 
Knap, a knoll or protuberance above surrounding land. It appears 
in Anglo-Saxo n as Anappe, and in kindred languages as denoting a knob 
or button, but in old English it denotes ‘‘the top of a hill or a rising 
ground ” (Wright). 
Leary, hungry, faint. This is the old English word lear or leer, in 
German J/eer, signifying empty or hollow, having its kindred noun 
lereness. 
‘** But at the first encounter downe he lay, 
The horse runs /eere without the man.” 
—Harrington’s Ariosto, XXXV. 64. 
Linney, a small building erected against a bank or another building. 
In New England it is generally pronounced Jinter, or lenter. This is 
commonly regerded as a corruption of Jean to. But Wright gives linhay 
as in the Westmoreland dialect denoting an open shed. In this form, 
also it appears in “ Lorna Doone,” a novel written in the Devonshire 
dialect. 
