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English
Etymology
A variant, like hawse (“part of a vessel's bow containing hawseholes”), of Middle English halse (“neck”); see hawse for more.
Pronunciation
Noun
hause (plural hauses)
- (nautical) Obsolete form of hawse.
- (Scotland, Northern England) A col, a lower neck or ridge between two peaks: a mountain pass.
Further reading
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933. "hause, hawse (hǭs). Sc. and north. dial. A narrower and lower neck or connecting ridge between two heights or summits; a col."
German
Pronunciation
Verb
hause
- inflection of hausen:
- first-person singular present
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- singular imperative
Scots
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Noun
hause (plural hauses)
- (anatomy) neck, throat, gullet
- (geography) defile, narrow passage between hills, the head of a pass
Derived terms
Verb
hause (third-person singular simple present hauses, present participle hausin, simple past haused, past participle haused)
- to hug, embrace, take in one's arms