haaf

[hahf]

noun

deep-sea fishing grounds off the Shetland and Orkney Islands.

Origin of haaf

1785–95; < Scandinavian; compare Old Norse haf sea; cognate with Old English hæf; akin to heave

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Examples from the Web for haaf

Historical Examples of haaf

Look here, I'se got haaf a bob, and a good warming into the bargain.
Her Benny
Silas Kitto Hocking
I's tooked 'em hum a haaf a bob every night for t' week, and they b'longs to me.
Her Benny
Silas Kitto Hocking
But aater 'bout a haaf an hour Jim he zes, 'Veyther, an' how d'ee feel now?'
A Glossary of Words used in the County of Wiltshire
George Edward Dartnell
An' tha went at th' business o' thy own accord an' managt it i' haaf an hour!
That Lass O' Lowrie's
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Haaf, hf, n. a deep-sea fishing-ground off the coast of Shetland.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M)
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British Dictionary definitions for haaf

haaf

noun

a deep-sea fishing ground off the Shetland and Orkney Islands

Word Origin for haaf

Old English hæf sea; related to Old Norse haf; see heave

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