Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An obsolete or dialectal form of harsh.
  • noun A case made of rushes or flags; a wicker basket for carrying fish.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A basket made of rushes or flags, as for carrying fish.

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  • noun obsolete A basket made of rushes or flags, as for carrying fish.

Etymologies

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See hassock.

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Examples

  • While wondering what this could mean, the play was finished, when one of the comedians, a brother of the Worcestershire Desdemona, came to the pit door, calling out – 'Hi'm desired to hask hif Miss Camilla

    Camilla 2008

  • HUNTER: Well, Wolf, we've put in, we've added over the last four years -- I've added with the great John McCuen (ph), personnel subcommittee, hask (ph), Ike Skelton and lots of others, 30,000 Army troops and 5,000 Marine troops to the force that we had four years ago.

    CNN Transcript Dec 21, 2006 2006

  • Only you hask her if you dont believe me and wash her fase same time sir.

    Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

  • "Well, sir, just this once, since you put it like that, and hask so particular."

    Jack of Both Sides The Story of a School War Florence Coombe

  • If ye hask me, wich (which) ye don't, then no wisky, says oi; and if ye hask why?

    Black Rock: a Tale of the Selkirks Ralph Connor 1898

  • When I'll want some leetle money, s'pose those hrat he'll wasn't been prime yet, hall H'I'll need was to go non Monsieur Edouard, hask for those leetle monny.

    The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive Emerson Hough 1890

  • ` ` What do you hask for it? '' asked the planter indifferently, designating the house by a wave of his whip.

    Old Creole Days 1879

  • "I'm sure, I'm greatly obliged to you, gentlemen, and I hask a thousand pardons for troublin 'you," she concluded in a somewhat severe tone, that left them abashed and culpable; and vanished as mysteriously as she had appeared.

    Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878

  • Only you hask her if you don't believe me and wash her fase same time sir.

    Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War 1862

  • What you hask for you hask for because you're able to demand it.

    Castle Richmond Anthony Trollope 1848

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