holp

American  

[hohlp] / hoʊlp /

verb

Nonstandard: South Midland and Southern U.S.

1. a simple past tense of help.

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holp British  

/ həʊlp /

verb

1. archaic  a past tense of help

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Example Sentences

He asked Ged about Gont, and then spoke fondly of his own home isles of the East Reach, telling how the smoke of village hearthfires is blown across that quiet sea at evening between the small islands with funny names: Korp, Kopp, and Holp, Venway and Vemish, Iffish, Koppish, and Sneg.

From Literature

In Iffish they say it was Estarriol who sailed that boat, but in Tok they say it was two fishermen blown by a storm far out on the Open Sea, and in Holp the tale is of a Holpish fisherman, and tells that he could not move his boat from the unseen sands it grounded on, and so wanders there yet.

From Literature

He seemed not much more than a boy, for there was no gift or scourge of mage-power in him, and he had never been anywhere but Iffish, Tok, and Holp, and his life was easy and untroubled.

From Literature

The speech’s highly formal ababcc rhyme scheme more closely resembles the final quatrain and couplet of a sonnet than it does ordinary conversation between two friends: Tut, man, one fire burns out another’s burning, One pain is lessened by another’s anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another’s languish: Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.

From The Guardian

Holp, hōlp, Holpen, hōlp′n, old pa.t. and pa.p. of help.

From Project Gutenberg