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ha'|hɑː|
Sc. form of hall1.
1780–1836J. Mayne Siller Gun in Chambers Pop. Poems Scot. (1862) 146 The bailies caught the welcome strain, And made the ha' resound again. 1814Scott Wav. ix, A gentleman from the south had arrived at the Ha'. 1832–53D. S. Buchan in Whistle-Binkie (Scot. Songs) Ser. iii. 48 She aye made her hallan to shine like a ha'.
Comb., ha'-Bible, the great Bible that lay in the ha' or principal apartment; ha'-folk, the folk of the hall, kitchen, or common room, the servants; ha'-house, the manor-house, the habitation of a landed proprietor.
1786Burns Cotter's Sat. Night xii, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride. 1786― Twa Dogs 62 An' tho' the gentry first are stechin, Yet ev'n the ha' folk fill their pechan Wi' sauce. 1814Scott Wav. x, There were mair fules in the laird's ha' house than Davie Gellatley. 1823Galt Entail I. xix. 158 The big ha' Bible was accordingly removed..from the shelf where it commonly lay. |