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maryrobinette: The Shades of Milk and Honey style sheet maryrobinette 2010

Notice the tree in front -- the finest specimen on the island of the good old Guernsey hoak.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 1, 1892 Various

At its heels are bo for hobo, and hoak for hoakum, two altogether fit successors to bum for bummer.

Chapter 6. Tendencies in American. 3. Processes of Word-Formation Henry Louis 1921

It is possible that hoakum, the verb of which is to hoak, is a similar backformation from hoax.

Chapter 9. The Common Speech. 6. The Noun Henry Louis 1921

Does hoak look better than helm, or does helm look better than hoak?

Liza of Lambeth 1919

"Well, Mr. Footley," says I, "for my own private opinion, when you've got a nice brass plite in the middle, an 'nice brass' andles each end, there's nothin 'like hoak."

Liza of Lambeth 1919

'Or sometimes there's a hoak tree or a cherry tree in the garding,' said another man; 'then they calls it "Hoak Lodge" or "Cherry Cottage".'

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell 1890

It 'ad a' arf-round marble top to it, and underneath was a carved hoak figger, a mermaid, with 'er arms up over' er 'ead' oldin 'up the table top -- something splendid!'

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell 1890

'Why, don't you remember, back in the summer, that carved hoak hall table as Rushton pinched out of that

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell 1890

Cool Breeze says: hoek heck but if we simply alter the structure hoek hoak you see? hoakstra =) hoak-xtra

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