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holp

American  
[hohlp] / hoʊlp /

verb

Nonstandard: South Midland and Southern U.S.
  1. a simple past tense of help.


holp British  
/ həʊlp /

verb

  1. archaic a past tense of help

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She yelled into my ear, “Kin you crawl, Will? If you cain’t, them men comin' out’n the train can holp you.”

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

“I didn’t like the way Buster looked at me when he said I could holp him in the fields.”

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

She said something that must of been “Lemme holp you up, Will,” and tried to pull me to my feet, whoop!

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

"Hit don't seem to me that tellin' a leetle made up tale to holp hisse'f along in courtin' would be accounted a crime on a feller," proffered his son.

From The Tobacco Tiller A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields by Hackley, Sarah Bell

"I gives ye my hand on thet—because I don't see no way ter holp myself," he capitulated.

From The Code of the Mountains by Buck, Charles Neville