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3rd edn addenda, page 301:-
Hence too the eruptive disorder which appears on the skin,
like marks made by the scratching of a cat, is vulgarly
called cat-arrles; and query if the term harrow be not from
the marks, or arrs, made in rows by that instrument, i.e. an
arr-row?
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kelter
skelter
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Kelter, or skelter (a word almost forgot) means order as to
arrangement, or condition as to body. Hence the phrase of
people running helter skelter means running in despite of
all order; helter order meaning hang order, as we say hang
sorrow, &c.
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stirrup
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Stirrup, is from Stay-rope, a rope with a noose at the end
fastened to the saddle to put the foot in, in which form
some old drawings represent it.
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healm
heam
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Healm, or heam, is a Saxon word for straw, though now out of
use, and is here the present vulgar pronunciation of home.
From this circumstance it is not improbable but that straw,
which once constituted the most general bed, might give the
name to the place of domestic repose, by the same figure
that has denominated our ordinary repasts meals, from the
meal that was heretofore the general food, and as boarding
and tabling mean the gratuity of so much per week for
victuals eat on boards and tables, &c.- Hence it is easy to
see hamlet means a lot or parcel of homes; and hence is had
perhaps the term ham for the wooden collar now put on the
neck of a cart-horse, from its connexion with a boss, or
support, which it is well known was not long since in
several places made of straw, called a barriham.
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stee
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Stee, is the vulgar name here for ladder, and steel for
style. Hence the idea of something high or upright, which is
contained in these words steep, step, steeple.
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hose
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Hose, is an old Furness-fell word for the throat; and the
canvas pipe with which sailors draw water from their casks,
&c. is called a hose. From this it seems not improbable,
that
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