hoast
Britishnoun
verb
Etymology
Origin of hoast
from Old Norse
Example Sentences
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One was William Randolph Hearst, whose correspondents constantly supply him with expensive but startling scoops,* whose vital pungency has won him more millions of daily readers than any other individual publisher can hoast.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lairdie has anither coat, a brawer yin, and he lent me the auld yin because the nichts is cauld, and I hae a hoast ma’sel!
From The Disentanglers by Lang, Andrew
Ivery time I heerd the owd man hoast I thought he were boun' to dee.
From More Tales of the Ridings by Moorman, Frederic William
He that compard mans bodie to an hoast, Sayd that the hands were scouts, discouering harmes, The feete were horsemen, thundring on the coast, The brest, and stomacke, footmen, huge in swarmes.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 07 England's Naval Exploits Against Spain by Hakluyt, Richard
"Ay, it's the hoast o' a dying woman."
From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
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