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
Thou able to maintaine an hoast in pay, That livest by forraine exhibition?
From Massacre at Paris by Christopher Marlowe
In February 1666 I drow for 300f., out of which I payed 180 francks to my hoast; I lent 3 pistols to Mr. Alexandre, a escu to Mr. Grahme.
From Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 Journals of Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665-1676 by Lord John Lauder Fountainhall
His hair was reid as ony rose, His legs was lang an' bony, He keepit a hoast an' a rubbin'-post An' a buskit cockernony!
From The Auld Doctor and other Poems and Songs in Scots by David Rorie
“Buy a fine toasting-fork for toast, Or fine spice-grater—tools for an hoast; If these in winter be lacking, I say, Your guests will pack, your trade decay.”
From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Charles Hindley
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