, a cold thick mist or fog in easterly winds;
the _haar_.

HARRY-BANNINGS. A north-country name for sticklebacks.

HARRY-NET. A net with such small meshes, and so formed, as to take even
the young and small fish.

HARVEST-MOON. The full moon nearest the autumnal equinox, when for
several successive evenings she rises at the same hour; and this name is
given in consequence of the supposed advantage of the additional length
of moonlight to agriculture.

HASEGA. A corruption of _asseguay_ (which see).

HASK. An archaism for a fish-basket.

HASLAR HAGS. The nurses of the naval hospital Haslar.

HASLAR HOSPITAL. A fine establishment near Gosport, for the reception
and cure of the sick and wounded of the Royal Navy.

HASP. A semicircular clamp turning in an eye-bolt in the stem-head of a
sloop or boat, and fastened by a forelock in order to secure the
bowsprit down to the bows. (_See_ SPAN-SHACKLE.)

HASTAN. The Manx or Erse term for a large eel or conger.

HASTY-PUDDING. A batter made of flour or oatmeal stirred in boiling
water, and eaten with treacle or sugar at sea. This dish is not
altogether to be despised in need, although Lord Dorset--the sailor
poet--speaks of it disparagingly:

"Sure hasty-pudding is thy chiefest dish,
With bullock's liver, or some stinking fish."

HATCH. A half-door. A contrivance for trapping salmon. (_See_ HECK.)

HATCH-BARS. To secure the hatches; are padlocked and sealed.

HATCH-BOAT. A sort of small vessel known as a pilot-boat, having a deck
composed almost entirely of hatches.

HATCH-DECK. Gun brigs had hatches instead of lower decks.

HATCHELLING. The combing and preparing hemp for rope-making.

HATCHES. Flood-gates set in a river to stop the current of water. Also,
coverings of grating, or close hatches to seal the holds.--_To lie under
hatches, stowed in the hold._ Terms used figuratively for being in
distress and death.

HATCHET-FASHION. Cutting at the heads of antagonists, instead of
thrusting.

HATCH-RINGS. Rings to lift the hatches by, or replace them.

HATCHWAY. A square or oblong opening in the middle of the deck of a
ship, of which there are generally three--the fore, main, and
after--affording passages up and down from one deck to another, and
again descending into the hold. The coverings over these openings are
called hatches. Goods of bulk are let down into the hold by the
hatchways. To lay anything in the hatchway, is to put it so that the
hatc