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hog-score
hog-score Curling. Also hog's score. [f. hog n.1 10 + score.] A distance-line drawn across the rink at about one-sixth of the rink's length from the tee, which a stone must cross in order to count in the game. Also fig.1787 Burns Tam Samson v, He was the king o' a' the core To guard, or draw, or wic... Oxford English Dictionary
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hog
▪ I. hog, n.1 (hɒg) Also 4(?)–6 hogge, 6– hogg. [First exemplified c 1340, but the derivative hoggaster occurs c 1175: origin unknown. The word may possibly be contained in the OE. place-names Hocgestán (Hogston) and Hocgetwistle; but this is hardly likely. The conjecture that ME. hog represented Co... Oxford English Dictionary
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score
▪ I. score, n. (skɔə(r)) Forms: 1 scoru, 3–6 scor, 4–5 schore, 4–6 skor, 4–7 skore, 5 Sc. scoyr, skowre, 5, 7 scoure, 6 scoore, Sc. scower, skoir, 6–7 scoare, Sc. scoir, 3– score. [Late OE. scoru str. fem. (sense 16), a. ON. skor str. fem., notch, tally, the number of twenty (cf. skora wk. fem., not... Oxford English Dictionary
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guard
▪ I. guard, n. (gɑːd) Forms: 4–7 garde, 5–6 Sc. gaird(e, 6–7 gard, guarde, 6– guard. [a. or ad. F. garde, earlier also guarde (= It., Sp. guarda):—Rom. *guarda, a. OTeut. *wardâ. (Cf. ward.)] † 1. a. Keeping, guardianship, custody, ward. to take guard: to take care. Obs.1426 Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 87... Oxford English Dictionary
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sweep
▪ I. sweep, n. (swiːp) Forms: 6 swiepe, 6–7 sweepe, sweape, 7 swepe, 7–8 sweap, 7– sweep. [Mainly f. sweep v. In senses 26, 28, app. a local variant of swape, q.v.] I. The action of sweeping. 1. a. An act of sweeping or clearing up or (usually) away; a clearance: freq. a general sweep, (now) a clean... Oxford English Dictionary
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