Definition of Hellier

1. n. One who heles or covers; hence, a tiler, slater, or thatcher.

Definition of Hellier

1. a tiler [n -S] - See also: tiler

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hellier

hellgramites
hellgrammiate
hellgrammite
hellgrammites
hellhag
hellhags
hellhole
hellholes
hellhound
hellhounds
hellhouse
hellhouses
hellicat
hellicats
hellicograph
hellier (current term)
helliers
helling
hellion
hellions
hellish
hellishly
hellishness
hellishnesses
hellkite
hellkites
hellman
hello
hello girl
hello there

Literary usage of Hellier

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Biographical History of Massachusetts: Biographies and Autobiographies of ...by Samuel Atkins Eliot by Samuel Atkins Eliot (1906)
"He was born in Bangor, Maine, July 8, 1864, a son of Walter Schermerhorn hellier and his wife, Eunice Blanchard (Bixby) hellier, ..."

2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Arches and Prerogative Courts by Joseph Phillimore, Court of Arches (Church of England)., George Lee, Great Britain High Court of Delegates, Church of England Province of Canterbury. Prerogative Court (1833)
"... on his interrogatories, at the expense of hellier, who produced her. Bishop, proctor for hellier, did not object to her being brought to be examined on ..."

3. The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist,: A Quarterly Journal and Review edited by Llewellyn Frederick William Jewitt, John Charles Cox, John Romilly Allen (1886)
"Alice hellier the daughter of John hellier buried the 22nd day of September ... Edith hellier the wife of John hellier buried the 27th day of March 1579. ..."

4. A Documentary History of American Industrial Society by Eugene Allen Gilmore, American Bureau of Industrial Research, Carnegie Institution of Washington (1909)
"I, Thomas hellier (age now some 28 years or thereabouts) was born at Whitchurch neer Lime in Dorsetshire; ..."

5. Cases on Wills, Descent, and Administration: Selected from Decisions of by George Purcell Costigan (1910)
"hellier. (High Court of Justice, Probate Division, 1884. LR 9 PD 237.) BUTT, J.8 In this case the facts proved and the inferences to be drawn from them do ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Designed by Aston Webb and Ingres Hell, and executed by Dent and hellier. Covered Bridge of Iron, Sheathed in Cast Lead, Grand Hotel, London. ..."

7. Report of the Annual Meeting (1879)
"hellier BAILY, FLS, FGS (Secretary). THE discovery of plant-remains in a deposit of brown and red bole under a thin bed of lignite, and immediately over a ..."

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