hesp

• hasp

Compare Icelandic hespa (“a hasp, a wisp or skein”). See hasp.

hesp (plural hesps)

1. (Scotland) A measure of two hanks of linen thread.

• Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Hesp”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes II (GAS–REA), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.
• “hesp”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Ephs, PSHE, Shep, eshp, heps, pehs, shep

From Middle Dutch hespe. Potentially related to Middle Dutch haspe (“bolt, latch”).

• IPA^(key): /ɦɛsp/

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• Hyphenation: hesp
• Rhymes: -ɛsp

hesp f (plural hespen)

1. (chiefly Belgium) ham (type of pork, meat from the thigh of a hog)

   Synonym: ham

• achterhesp
• hespebeen
• hespenworst
• voorhesp

From Proto-Iranian *Hácwah. Cognate to Persian اسب (asb).

• IPA^(key): /hɛsp/

hesp m

1. horse

• → Old Armenian: հասբ (hasb) (probably)