116 Contributions towards a Wiltshire Glossary. 
Hain ) Hayn. To reserve a field of grass for mowing. (A.B.D.) N.W. 
Haito. A horse; used by mothers and nurses concurrently with Gee-gee. 
A contraction of Hait-wo, the order to a horse to go to the left. Highty 
is similarly used in N. of England. N. & S.W. 
Hait-wo. See Horses. 
Hakker, Hacker. To tremble, as with passion (A.), eold, or. ague ( Wilts 
Tales, p.55). Hagger. To chatter with cold. (H.) N.W. 
Half-baked, or Half-saved. Half-witted. N.& S.W. 
*Hallantide. All Saints’ Day. (B.) 
Ham. A narrow strip of ground by a river, as Mill-ham. (D.) 
Hames. Pieces of wood attached to a horse’s collar in drawing. (D.) N.W. 
Hanch. Of a cow or bull, to thrust with the horns, whether in play or 
earnest. N.W. 
Hand. (1) 2. Corn has ‘a good hand ” when it is dry and slippery in the 
sack, ‘‘a bad hand” when damp and rough. (D.) 
(2) wv. To act as a second in a fight. N.W. 
(3) v. ‘To have hands with anything,” to have anything to do with it. 
“1 shan’t hae no hands wi’t.” N.W. 
Hander. The second to a pugilist. (A.) N.W. 
Handin’-post. A sign-post. N.W. 
Hand-wrist. The wrist. N.W. 
Handy. Near to, as ‘“‘handy home,” ‘‘ handy ten o’clock.” (A.B.) N. & S.W. 
Hang. “To hang up a field,” to take the cattle off it, and give it a long rest, 
so as to freshen up the pasture. N.W. 
Hang-fair. A public execution, as ‘‘ Hang-fair at ’Vize,” formerly treated 
as a great holiday. N.W. Obsolete. 
Hang-gallows. A gallows-bird. {Wilts Tales, p. 55.) N.W. 
Hanging. The steep wooded slope of a hill. N. & S.W. 
Hanging Geranium. Sazifraga sarmentosa, L., from the way in which 
it is usually suspended in a cottage window; also known as Strawberry 
Geranium, from its strawberry-like runners. S.W. 
*Hants Sheep, Hants Horses. ‘They were called [in Wilts} hants 
sheep; they were a sort of sheep that never shelled their teeth, but always 
had their lambs-teeth without shedding them, and thrusting out two broader 
in their room every year. . . . There were such a sort of horses called 
hants horses, that always showed themselves to be six years old.”—Lisle’s _ 
Husbandry, 1757. 
Happer down. To come down smartly, to rattle down, as hail, or leaves in 
autumn. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) 
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