Haaf vs Heaf - What's the difference?
haaf | heaf |
(Shetland Islands, Scotland) The open sea, especially as a place to fish.
* 1822 , Walter Scott, The Pirate'', 1826, ''Novels and Romances of the Author of Waverley , Volume 19,
* 2003 , Juliet Marillier, Foxmask : Saga of the Light Isles: 2,
(Shetland Islands) The practice of sea fishing for such as cod, ling and tusk.
* 2005 , James Coull, 7: The development of fishing communities with special reference to Scotland'', Jonathan Potts, Hance D. Smith (editors), ''Managing Britain's Marine and Coastal Environment: Towards a Sustainable Future ,
As nouns the difference between haaf and heaf
is that haaf is (shetland islands|scotland) the open sea, especially as a place to fish while heaf is (northern england) a piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become heafed; a heft.As a verb heaf is
(northern england) to become accustomed to and attached to an area of mountain pasture, seldom straying from it.haaf
English
Noun
(-)page 320,
- The banks to which they repair for the haaf fishing, are often many miles distant from the station where the fish is dried; so that they are always twenty or thirty hours absent, frequently longer; and under unfavourable circumstances of wind and tide, they remain at sea, with a very small stock of provisions, and in a boat of a construction which seems extremely slender, for two or three days, and are sometimes heard of no more.
page 28,
- The haaf -boat was as well maintained as any vessel in the islands; her master had a reputation for thoroughness, for all he was barely twenty years of age.
page 145,
- Although men concentrated at the main haaf stations during the summer fishing season, they reverted to their homes in crofting townships for the remainder of the year.