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H HAGS TEETH or HAKES TRETH to HANKS HARBOUR to HAWSE HAWSE-HOLES to HEAD-ROPE HEAD-SAILS to HEAVING-out HEAVING-short to HIGH AND DRY HIGH WATER to Fore-HOLD HOLD to HORSE HOLD HOLDING-on HOLDING-water HOLLOA! HOME HOME (anchoring) HOMMOC HOOD HOOK HORSE HOUNDS to HURRICANE Search Contact us
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HOMMOCHOMMOC, (tertre, Fr.) a name given by mariners to a hilloc, or small eminence of land resembling the figure of a cone, and appearing on the sea-coast of any country.
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