▪ I. † hune Naut. Obs.
Also 7 Sc. huin.
[In Layamon, app. a. ON. h{uacu}n-n knob at the masthead; in later use prob. a. F. hune (from Norse) in same sense. Cf. hound n.2]
= hound n.2 1.
| c 1205 Lay. 28978 Seil heo droȝen to hune. a 1605 Montgomerie Misc. Poems xlviii. 93 Vp uent our saillis, tauntit to the huins. 1764 Veicht in Phil. Trans. LIV. 286 The main-top-mast had great pieces carried from it, from the hunes down to the cap, at the head of the main-mast. |
▪ II. hune
var. of hone n.2 Obs., delay.