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- noun Plural form of
hencoop .
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Examples
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But rural areas in developing countries are littered with the results of failed programmes: toilets not used, put to other purposes as stores, hencoops, shrines and the like, or dismantled and materials used elsewhere.
Sanitation MDG is badly off track, but a community-led approach could fix that | Robert Chambers 2011
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‘And you,’ she said, ‘why are not you dancing in the other part of the ship with Mrs. Callander and Miss Green, instead of picking your way among the hencoops here with me?’
John Caldigate 2004
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There was some family joke which Kitty could not follow about mending boots and hencoops.
The Years 2004
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Nell was about to go into the kitchen and wash up the tea things; Jo was about to return to his hencoops; the children were about to be put to bed by their mother; and
The Years 2004
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"Just like honest, backwoods Abe to talk about foxes and hencoops, " Charles Marshall said, a sneer in his voice.
The Guns Of The South Turtledove, Harry 1960
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I felt it to be "the proudest moment of my life," as ship-captains say, when they return thanks for the silver teapot richly chased with nautical emblems, presented by the passengers saved from the wreck, as a token of gratitude for the hencoops thrown overboard by the manly commander.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Various
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Many were the efforts made by the sufferers, some in the jolly boat, some on a raft, others by lashing themselves to pieces of timber, hogsheads, and even hencoops, to reach the shore; but out of four hundred and seventy-two persons who a few days before had left the coast of Holland, not more than eighteen escaped the raging billows.
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They flung us planks and hencoops, and everything that floats.
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The larboard-quarter boat was torn from the davits and blown across the poop, carrying away the binnacle and crushing the hencoops in its passage.
The Wreck on the Andamans Joseph Darvall
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They come ashore tied on to boards or hencoops or the like -- seven of the crew and seven passengers.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various
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