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hantles

hantles is the plural of hantle.

Meaning of hantle

Noun

hantle (plural hantles)

  1. (Northern, Scotland, UK) A considerable number or quantity; a great many; a great deal.
    • An Irish creature, Erbert Ellison was the name, ran the place for the trustees, he said, but if you might believe all the stories you heard he ran a hantle more silver into his own pouch than he ran into theirs.1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 15

Questions about hantles

What is hantles the plural of?
Hantles is the plural of hantle.

Words near hantles in the dictionary

  1. Hanthorpe
  2. hanting
  3. hantkeninid
  4. hantkeninids
  5. hantle
  6. hantles
  7. Hanton
  8. Hantons
  9. hants
  10. Hants County
  11. Hantsavichy

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