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▪ I. hause, hawse Sc. and north. dial.|hɔːs|
[mod. northern dial. form of halse neck, used in a special sense.]
A narrower and lower neck or connecting ridge between two heights or summits; a col; the regular name in the English Lake district and on the Scottish Border.
Generally at the head of two stream valleys which descend opposite sides of the hause, forming a pass over the ridge or mountain chain at this point; e.g. the Hause between Fleetwith and the Newlands Mountains crossed by Honister Pass, Esk Hause between Scawfell Pike and Bowfell at the head of Eskdale, Buttermere Hause, Deepdale Hause, etc.
1781J. Hutton Tour to Caves Gloss. (E.D.S.), Hause, see Hose. Hose, Horse, a deep vale between two mountains. 1786W. Gilpin Lakes Cumb. (1808) I. xv. 229 The mountain over which we passed, is called, in the language of the country, a hawse. 1822Lights & Shadows Scot. Life 114 (Jam.) A storm is coming down from the Cairnibrae⁓hawse. 1872Jenkinson Guide to Eng. Lakes (1879) 218 Between Esk Hause and Bow Fell is a mountain called Hanging Knott, which can be scaled from the top of the Hause in about twenty minutes.
▪ II. hause, hauser
see halse, hawse, hawser. |