hawlse

Yola

Etymology 1

Probably by metathesis of Middle English hasel; compare dialectal English halse (“hazel”).

Noun

hawlse

  1. hazel

Etymology 2

From Middle English halsen (“to beseech”), from Old English hālsian, from Proto-West Germanic *hailisōn, *hailasōn, from Proto-Germanic *hailisōną (“to greet”). Compare dialectal English halse (“to beseech”).

Verb

hawlse

  1. to banish a spirit

References
  • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 45
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