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Hatteraick (Dirk)

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Also called “Jans Janson.” A Dutch smuggler imprisoned with lawyer Glossin for kidnapping Henry Bertrand. During the night Glossin contrived to enter the smuggler’s cell, when a quarrel ensued. Hatteraick strangled Glossin, and then hanged himself. (Sir Walter Scott: Guy Mannering.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Hassock
Hat
Hat Money
Hats and Caps
Hatches
Hatchet
Hatchway (Lieutenant Jack)
Hatef [the deadly]
Hattemists
Hatteraick (Dirk)
Hatto
Hatton
Hatton Garden (London)
Haul over the Coals
Haussmannization
Hautboy (pron. Ho-boy)
Haute Claire
Hautville Coit
Have a Care!
Have a Mind for it (To)