Hop-thumb

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• Hop

  ·vt To impregnate with hops. II. Hop ·vi To <<Dance>>. III. Hop ·noun A dance; ·esp., an informal ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• hop

  A dance.--Johnson. This word has always been used here as in England as a familiar term for dance; b...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Thumb

  ·vt To handle awkwardly. II. Thumb ·vt To play with the thumbs, or with the thumbs and fingers; as,...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• thumb

  By rule of thumb: to do any thing by dint of practice. To kiss one's thumb instead of the book; a vu...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Hop-o'-my-thumb

  ·noun ·Alt. of Hop-thumb. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• hop-o-my-thumb

  A diminutive person, man or woman. She was such a-hop-o-my thumb, that a pigeon, sitting on her shou...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• hop merchant

  A dancing master. See caper merchant. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• hop-bush

  n. «the name for all species of Dodonaea» (Maiden, p. 417), N.O. Sapindaceae. 1883. F. M. Bailey, ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• kangaroo-hop

  n. a peculiar affected gait. See quotation. 1875. `Spectator' (Melbourne), May 22, p. 27, col. 2: ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• Lady's thumb

  ·- An annual weed (Polygonum Persicaria), having a lanceolate leaf with a dark spot in the middle. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Tear-thumb

  ·noun A name given to several species of plants of the genus Polygonum, having angular stems beset w...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• cow's thumb

  Done to a cow's thumb; done exactly. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• tom thumb

  A dwarf, a little hop-o'my-thumb. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• miller's thumb

  A fresh-water fish, the Cottus cataphractus. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• thumb-cleat

  In shape resembling a thumb. They arrest the topsail-reef-earings from slipping, and are also lashed...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• to hop the twig

  To run away. CANT. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• rule of thumb

  That rule suggested by a practical rather than a scientific knowledge. In common matters it means to...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Hert on ye Hop

  A tenement so called without Crepelgate, 1348-9 (Ct. H.W. I. 530). Not further identified. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.