† hamfaren.
Old Law. Obsolete.
= hamesucken n. 1.
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a1135 Laws Hen. I c. 80 §11 Hamsocna est, vel hamfare, si quis premeditate ad domum eat..et ibi eum invadat, si die vel nocte hoc faciat.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 95 Hamsokene oþer Ham~fare, a rese i-made in hous.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 223 Breach of peace, hannifare, peace of the Hundred, [etc.].
1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. Hamfare.
1717 Blount's Law-Dict. (ed. 3) (at cited word) Hamfare is a Breach of the Peace in a House.
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- to ride on the rigging of
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- to ride one's hobby
- to ride one's hobby-horse
- to ride one's hobbyhorse
- to ride one's luck
- to ride or go to scale
- to ride or sit bodkin
- to ride out
- to ride over
- to ride pillion
- to ride point
- to ride quarantine
- to ride reformades
- to ride roughshod
- to ride rusty
- to ride sail into the sunset
- to ride sail off into the sunset
- to ride short
- to ride shotgun
- to ride skimmington
- to ride the blind
- to ride the blinds
- to ride the brake