Hope
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HOPE, sb.1 Sc. n.Cy. Nhb. Dur. Yks. Glo. Som. Also in form hop Sc. (Jam.) [h)op.] 1. A hollow among the hills; a valley through which a brook runs. Sc. A sloping hollow between two hills, or the hollow that forms two ridges on one hill (Jam.). Slk. There is a little snug sheep house in our hope, Hogg Tales (1838) 68, ed. 1866. Rxb. Long wearily he wandered on Among the hollow hopes and hills, Riddell Poet. Wks. (ed. 1871) I. 189. Gall. A country of wide green holms and deep blind ‘hopes,’ or hollows among the mountains, Crockett Moss-Hags (1895) ix. n.Cy. Grose (1790) MS. add. (M.); Bailey (1721); N.Cy.1 (s.v. Hogh). Nhb.1 A smaller opening branching out from the main dale, and running up to the mountain ranges as the burns branch out, or are tributaries to the main stream, Egglestone Weardale Names, 50. The upland part of a mountain valley. Dur. (J.H.), s.Dur. (J.E.D.) 2. Comp. (1) Hope-head, the highest part of the ‘hope’; (2) Hope-foot, the lower part of the ‘hope.’ (1) Abd. The water ran doon frae the heich hope-heid, MacDonald Malcolm (1875) II. 280. (1, 2) Lth., Twd., Dmf. (Jam.) 3. A hill. Edb. Hills are variously named, according to their magnitude; as... Kaim, Bank, Hope, Pennecuik Wks. (1715) 50, ed. 1815. Nhb.1 Freq. applied to mere eminences, and is then usually pronounced ‘up.’ w.Yks. (J.W.), Glo.1 Glo.2 Som. Hervey Wedmore Chron. (1887) I. 385. [1. Ouer hil and hoip, bank and bra, Dalrymple Leslie's Hist. Scotl. (1596) I. 163; And so þai come till a caue... Be-twene twa hillis in a hope, Wars Alex. (c. 1450) 5390.]
HOPE, sb.2 Sc. Also Ken. 1. A small bay; a haven. Sc. It was a little hamlet which straggled along the side of a creek formed by the discharge of a small brook into the sea... It was called Wolf's-hope (i.e. Wolf's Haven), Scott Bride of Lam. (1819) ix. Sh.&Ork.1, Lth. (Jam.) 2. A place of anchorage for ships. Ken.1 [1. Norw. dial. hop, a small creek (Aasen); so ON. hōp (Fritzner).]
HOPE, HOPED, see Hoop, sb.2, Help.
‡HOPE, sb. Dev. The name of a short street in Devonport. Grose (1790) MS. add. (M.)
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