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Hoveller

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yawlernounOne who sails a yawl.
hooligannoun(informal, attributive) A young person who causes trouble or violence, typically as a member of a gang or other group.
balkernounSomeone or something that balks; a naysayer.
hobblernounOne who hobbles.
hobbinollnounA hob; a rustic or yokel.
hoisternounOne who, or that which, hoists or lifts.
hoolnoun(slang) Clipping of hooligan (“a young person who causes trouble or violence, typically as a member of a gang or other group”). [(informal, attributive) A young person who causes trouble or violence, typically as a member of a gang or other group.]
hoolienoun(Ireland) Alternative spelling of hooley (“a noisy celebration or party”). [(Ireland) A noisy celebration or party; also, an evening of traditional music and dance.]
highwaymannoun(historical) A person, usually mounted on horseback, who robbed travelers on public roads.
hawk boynoun(dated) A plasterer's (male) attendant who supplied him with mortar.
boondockernoun(US, informal) A person who lives in a rural location.
have-a-go heronoun(British, informal) An ordinary member of the public who intervenes, often at personal risk, to stop a troublemaker, hooligan or ne'er-do-well in the act of committing a crime.
puntmannounA boatman who uses a punt.
alongshoremannoun(archaic) Alternative form of longshoreman, a wharfinger or stevedore. [(US) A man employed to load and unload ships; any person thus employed.]
hufflernoun(nautical) An unqualified pilot, typically employed by the crew of a barge.
hobnailnounA short nail with a thick head, typically used in boot soles.
swampernounSomeone or something that swamps or overwhelms.
jack-in-the-waternoun(UK, slang, obsolete) An attendant at the watermen's stairs on the river and seaport towns.
hogwallernounAlternative spelling of hog waller. [(slang, US, derogatory) Any poor town or out-of-the-way place that is populated by hillbillies and their farm animals.]
bosonnoun(particle physics) A particle with totally symmetric composite quantum states, which exempts them from the Pauli exclusion principle, and that hence obeys Bose-Einstein statistics. They have integer spin. Among them are many elementary particles, and some (gauge bosons) are known to carry the fundamental forces. Compare fermion.

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