▪ 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.
| 1781 J. Hutton Tour to Caves Gloss. (E.D.S.), Hause, see Hose. Hose, Horse, a deep vale between two mountains. 1786 W. Gilpin Lakes Cumb. (1808) I. xv. 229 The mountain over which we passed, is called, in the language of the country, a hawse. 1822 Lights & Shadows Scot. Life 114 (Jam.) A storm is coming down from the Cairnibrae⁓hawse. 1872 Jenkinson 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.