Lexicographical Neighbors of Haffet
Literary usage of Haffet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of Books by English Authors who Lived Before the Year 1700 by Robert Hoe, James Osborne Wright, Carolyn Shipman (1903)
"... haffet, *3-«4. Table, **i-**z (verso blank). Text, Ai-Rz (verso blank) in
fours, ending with " Finis. ..."
2. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"... claw a sary man's haffet," " Seeing by force of truth, they are now at last
driven (dispairing of the matter it selfe) for all other argument, ..."
3. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"haffet [the side of the head, the temple]. Her haffet locks as brown's a berry,
... Swith, in some beggar's haffet ..."
4. Proverbs, Proverbial Expressions, and Popular Rhymes of Scotland by Andrew Cheviot (1896)
"Sairy man," poor man ; " haffet," side of the head. ie, you will bring him to
poverty.^Kelly. \ YE'LL gar me seek the needle where I didna stick it. ..."
5. The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns by Robert Burns, William Ernest Henley (1897)
"... haffet«," M ; " in some beg- gnr'x ... "her haffet locks as brown '» a berry," 208. ..."
6. An Impartial Examination of the Fourth Volume of Mr. Daniel Neal's History by Zachary Grey (1739)
"Barrington, Captain haffet, and other Officers with a Party of ... upwards of
three hundred Men, Women, and Children, The Cruelty of Barrington and haffet, ..."
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