hesp
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Compare Icelandic hespa (“a hasp, a wisp or skein”). See hasp.
Noun
hesp (plural hesps)
- (Scotland) A measure of two hanks of linen thread.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hesp”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch hespe.
Pronunciation
Noun
hesp f (plural hespen)
Northern Kurdish
Etymology
From Proto-Iranian *Hácwah. Cognate to Persian اسب (asb).
Noun
hesp m
Descendants
- → Old Armenian: հասբ (hasb) (probably)
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