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hough
/hɑk/
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What does hough mean?
noun
- Alternative form of hock (“the hollow behind the knee”).
- Alternative form of hock (“tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped”).
verb
- Alternative form of hock (“to hamstring”).
More meanings (9)
noun
- Alternative form of hoe.
- (obsolete) Obsolete spelling of hoe.
proper noun
- A surname.
- A village and former civil parish, now in Hough and Chorlton parish, south of Crewe, Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7150).
- A hamlet in Alderley Edge parish, Cheshire East district, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ8578).
- A settlement on the island of Tiree, Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NL9545).
- A neighbourhood of Cleveland, Ohio, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Texas County, Oklahoma, United States.
verb
- (archaic) Archaic spelling of hoe.
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IPA pronunciation
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The King substituted another man, and it still refused, resolving to stand by its own election of a Mr. Hough.
Mr. Romeyn B. Hough tells of a certain old ice-cream freezer that attracted flocks of crossbills one winter, as a salt-lick attracts deer.
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Hough, Dr. S., men’s temperature more variable than women’s; proportion of sexes in man.
The success of the romance caused Emerson Hough to advise his friend Andy Adams to put a woman in a novel about trail driving--so Andy Adams told me.
Hough mentions an instance in which, from the great pain and sudden appearance, a small tumor lying against the right pubic bone was supposed to be a strangulated hernia.