hause

A variant, like hawse (“part of a vessel's bow containing hawseholes”), of Middle English halse (“neck”); see hawse for more.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /hɔːs/

hause (plural hauses)

1. (nautical) Obsolete form of hawse.
2. (Scotland, Northern England) A col, a lower neck or ridge between two peaks: a mountain pass.

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933. "hause, hawse (hǭs). Sc. and north. dial. [mod. northern dial. form of HALSE neck, used in a special sense.] A narrower and lower neck or connecting ridge between two heights or summits; a col."

• IPA^(key): [ˈhaʊ̯zə]

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hause

1. inflection of hausen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

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• IPA^(key): [hɑːs], [hɔːs]
• (Northern Scots, Insular Scots) IPA^(key): [haːs]

hause (plural hauses)

1. (anatomy) neck, throat, gullet
2. (geography) defile, narrow passage between hills, the head of a pass

• hausebane (“collarbone”)
• hauselock (“the wool on a sheep's neck”)
• hause-pipe (“throat, windpipe”)

hause (third-person singular simple present hauses, present participle hausin, simple past haused, past participle haused)

1. to hug, embrace, take in one's arms