Hell

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HELL, sb. Var. dial. uses in Sc. Irel. and Eng. Also written hel Wxf.1 Dor.; helle Sh.I.; and in forms ail Bck.; hail Hrt.; hale Bdf. Hrt.; heel- Brks. 1. In comb. (1) Hell-beck, a rivulet, esp. one issuing from a cave-like recess; (2) Hell-bind, the greater dodder, Cuscuta europaea; (3) Hell-bolter, an untractable person; (4) Hell-cat, (a) a termagant, vixen; a thoroughly bad or coarse person; (b) an oath; (c) a small, troublesome black insect, a midge; (5) Hell-dame or Heelden, a bad woman; (6) Hell-dyke, a dark ravine; (7) Hell-falleero, see (9); (8) Hell-fire law, summary proceedings against a debtor; (9) Hell-for-leather or Hell-for-leatherly, at a great pace, recklessly; (10) Hell-hole or Hell's hole, (a) a den of infamy; (b) a dark nook supposed to be haunted; (11) Hell-hound, a ruffian; (12) Hell-jay, The razor-bill, Alca torda; (13) Hell-kettle, a pit full of water; (14) Hell-mint, unnatural and unseasonable growth; (15) Hell-raker, a wild, reckless fellow; (16) Hell-root, (a) the lesser broom-rape, Orobanche minor; (b) the common Alexanders, Smyrnium Olusatrum; (17) Hell-seed, see (2); (18) Hell-spinner, (19) Hell-sweep or Hell-sweeper, the common gnat, Culex pipiens; (20) Hell-to-leather, see (9); (21) Hell-wain, a supernatural appearance seen in the sky at night; (22) Hell-weed, (a) see (2); (b) the lesser dodder, Cuscuta Epithymum; (c) the Indian grass, Cuscuta Trifolii; (d) the bindweed, Convolvulus arvensis and Convolvulus sepium; (e) the corn crowfoot, Ranunculus arvensis; (23) Hell-words, words or spells of ill-omen. (1) Lakel.1 n.Yks. Bailey (1721). (2) Hrt. (B. & H.) (3) e.Suf. (F.H.) (4, a) w.Yks. He's a hell-cat is yond (B.K.); w.Yks.1 (b) Suf. (P.H.E.) (c) n.Lin.1 (5) Brks. Gl. (1852). (6) m.Yks.1 (7) I.W.1 They be aal quarlun and fightun hell-falleero. (8) w.Yks. (S.K.C.) (9) w.Yks. We were gooen hell-faladerly when his tyre brast. Yon train was gooin' hell-ferladder throo t'tunnel (B.K.). Midl. Droives out on to the turnpike, an awaay hell-for-leather, Bartram People of Clopton (1897) 188. War.3 e.Suf. Hell for luther (F.H.). (10, a) n.Yks.2 (b) Gall. Nae boggles now to be seen about Hell's-hole and the Ghaist craft, Mactaggart Encycl. (1824) 29, ed. 1876. (11) Shr.1 A poor old man whom a pack of ruffianly lads had hooted at and pelted, said of them, to a magistrate at Whitchurch, that ‘they wun a paasle o' ‘ell-'uns.’ (12) Sh.I. Swainson Birds (1885) 217. (13) Dur. Bailey (1721). (14) n.Ir. His heart full av hopes that in hellmint wir sloamin', Lays and Leg. (1884) 74. (15) Midl. A raal rantin' hell-raaker, I believe, but as good as gowld, Bartram People of Clopton (1897) 70. (16, a) Ken. (B. & H.) (b) Dor. w.Gazette (Feb. 15, 1889) 7. (17) Hrt. Ellis Mod. Husb. (1750) IV. i. (18, 19) Cum.4 (20) Nhb. So right across Towlerhirst Moor they galloped ─ hell-to-leather, Pease Tales (1899) 37. (21) n.Cy. Denham Tracts (ed. 1895) II. 77; (Hall.) (22, a) Nhp.2 Brks. Druce Flora (1898) 358. Bdf. Batchelor Agric. (1813) 325. Hrt. Ellis Mod. Husb. (1750) IV. i. Cmb., Sus. (b) Lnk. From its destructive nature in suffocating plants, it has received the opprobrious names of hell-weed, and devil's-guts, Patrick Plants (1831) 129. Nhp.1, Cmb., Ken.1, Sus. (c) n.Bck. (d) Nhp.1 Nhp.2 (e) Yks. (23) Abd. You came straight before the cow, and you cast an ill-ee upon her, muttering some hell-words about ‘novum lac,’ Ruddiman Parish (1828) 38, ed. 1889. 2. Phr. (1) as hell kickt Betty, (2) at the hell o' one size, at a great rate; in a violent hurry; (3) hell to the rap, never a bit; (4) like hell in a tow, see (2); (5) to go to hell as like, to have no intention of doing a thing; (6) to make one smell hell, to make one's life a hell on earth. (1) w.Yks. He went by me on his bicycle as hell kickt Betty ta t'bottom o' t'rooad (B.K.). (2) I.W.1 That chap runs at the hell o' one size. (3) Ir. Hell to the rap of tythe-cess or hecuth-money, Barrington Sketches (1830) II. v. (4) Sc. (G.W.) (5) w.Yks.2 ‘Are ta goin' to thy wark to-day?’ ‘To hell as like’; Ad guə tə el əz laik (J.W.). (6) Ir. Flk-Lore Rec. (1881) IV. 106. 3. A hole, a hollow. Wxf.1 w.Yks. Lucas Stud. Nidderdale (c. 1882) 258. 4. Obsol. A dark place in the woods. Hmp. Wise New Forest (1883) 110, 283; Hmp.1 5. A brick-kiln. n.Lin. (E.P.)

HELL, v. Nhb. Dur. Cum. Wm. Yks. Lan. Glo. Wil. Som. Dev. Also written helle N.Cy.1 Cum.4 w.Yks.1; and in form hill Glo. Wil.1 [h)el.] 1. To pour out or down. Cf. heel, v.2 n.Cy. (K.), N.Cy.1 N.Cy.2, Nhb.1, Dur.1 Cum. They drank in piggins, peynts, or quarts,.. An' some they helt it down sae fast, They suin could hardly stan', Gilpin Pop. Poetry (1875) 200; Till gash went the sickle into my hand: Down hell'd the bluid, Relph Misc. Poems (1747) 2; Cum.4 Obs. Wm. (M.P.), n.Yks.2 n.Yks.3, w.Yks.1 Glo. (G.S.); ‘To hill down,’ to pour down as it were by pailfulls, spoken of rain pouring down like water spouts, Horae Subsecivae (1777) 213. Wil. Hill out some drink (K.); Wil.1 Som. Jennings Obs. Dial. w.Eng. (1825); W. & J. Gl. (1873). n.Dev. Lewy, hell Bet a cup o' zider, Rock Jim an' Nell (1867) st. 19. 2. With on: to pour water on dough in bread-making. w.Yks.1, ne.Lan.1 [To helle in, infundere,... To helle oute, effundere, Cath. Angl. (1483); Hell on þaim þi wreth, Hampole Ps. (c. 1330) lxviii. 29. Norw. dial. hella, to pour down (Aasen); ON. hella.]

HELL, see Eel, Heal, v.2

HELL, sb. Sc. Nhb. Cum. Yks. Dev. 1. In comp. (1) Hell-hard, very hard or difficult; (2) Hell-hot, as hot as it can be; (3) Hell-kettle, an oath; see below. (1) Dev. Waitin', same as this, be hell-hard to a man of my make, Phillpotts Striking Hours (1901) 277. (2) Lnk. The broth was Hell-hot in those days, Walker in Biog. Presb. (ed. 1827) I. 287. (3) w.Yks. ‘Hah mitch does ta think Ah gate fer yond dog?’ ‘Ah dooant know, tell us.’‘ £5.’‘ Thah gat hell kettle as lahke’ (B.K.). 2. Phr. (1) to kick up hells delight, to make a great disturbance; (2) to play hell and Tommy with, to set utterly at variance. (1) Cum. She would kick up hell's delight i' th' house, Gilpin Sngs. (1866) 224. (2) Nhb. She played fair hell an’-Tommy wi' Geordie an' Charlie, Pease Mark o' the Deil (1894) 21.