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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 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

“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 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 hain't blind and I hain't deef, and I can't holp seein' the way she does, and a hearin' her bemean you about me all the time nearly.

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

Old man Perry, and the boys got up a barbercue before the election to sorter holp Al along on the votes.

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

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