- 08.041 but they hoisted him up into the lowest branches
- 08.050 and hoist their empty sacks
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Hobgoblin
“Hob” is an old rustic nickname for “Robert” or “Robin”, so a hobgoblin is a goblin’s country cousin?
- 07.151 with goblins, hobgoblins, and orcs of the worst description.
“Hob, n.1.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 28 July 2015.
Hobble
- 08.120 and they could not go much better than a hobble
Hoard
- 01.075 There many a gleaming golden hoard
- 03.035 They must have come from a dragon’s hoard or goblin plunder,
- 08.133 and though his hoard was rich,
- 12.035 with the whole hoard of Thror on my back?
- 12.096 to the great hoard itself
- 12.098 But the enchanted desire of the hoard
- 13.019 in so marvellous a hoard,
- 13.039 more clear of the bewitchment of the hoard
- 15.035 and instruments regained from the hoard,
- 15.048 in your hoard is mingled
- 15.051 had you found the hoard unguarded
- 17.019 For it I will give one fourteenth share of the hoard
- 17.029 and see if you have brought from the hoard the portion
- 18.019 above hoarded gold,
- 18.033 no longer any question of dividing the hoard
Hive
- 07.023 He keeps hives
- 07.023 and hives of great fierce bees,
- 07.031 and rows of hives with bell-shaped tops made of straw.
Hinge
- 05.040 A box without hinges, key, or lid,
- 13.044 that hung twisted on their hinges
Hind-legs
- 07.092 The dogs could stand on their hind-legs when they wished,
This word is not in OED as one word – a JRRT original.
Hind
- 08.033 a hind and fawns as snowy white as the hart had been dark.
Hilt
- 01.075 To hide in gems on hilt of sword.
- 02.113 and jewelled hilts.
- 05.004 his hand came on the hilt of his little sword –
Hill-side
Once hyphenated and twice not? This apparent contradiction arouses my curiosity!
- 06.067 down the hillsides from their gate
- 06.086 and there with the light of the moon on a hill-side rock or a stream
- 09.018 from the hillside there was a water-gate.
To my surprise, the hypenated or two-word form are attested in OED, the single-word form is not… until it is itself one member of a combination word
1890 Daily News 20 Dec. 5/6 The name ‘Hillside men’..applied to the Fenians.
“hill-side, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/87009. Accessed 14 September 2017.
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