Do we say haik or hike

haik 8 occurrences

Since you were a young lad I suffered Since I wore the veil and wrapped My head in the folds of the haik.

The haik or barracan is exported in great numbers to the Levant by the pilgrims.

Their bodies were enveloped in a coarse haik, a species of serge of their own manufacture.

They sometimes throw round them a coarse white haik, which also serves for a bed and covering in the night, as many of them lie upon the bare ground in the open air before their tents.

Haik, the ancestor of the Armenian Nimrod, is said to be buried here.

She put back the hooded fold of her haik, showing him her face, her scarlet mouth, her wide eyes, long at the outer corners, her hair aflame with henna.

They were wearing blue turbans above the flowing white "haik" which fell back upon their shoulders, and the white burnous which reached to their ankles.

He also bounded, shied, dodged, ducked, swerved, dropped, crawled, zig-zagged and generally gave his best attention to evading the shot of the common fighting-man whom he had propitiatorily addressed as "Emir," though a mere wearer of a single fillet of camel-hair cord around his haik.

hike 110 occurrences

I admit," he added, taking a slanting squint at the sun, "that even I am not eager to take a long hike just now.

"Betty could walk ten miles and be all right," he declared proudly, "and I think Bobby is good for a hike, too.

"Some are such poor walkers, they'll decline at the first hint of a hike.

When you revolt, why revoltclimb, hike, get out, defytell everybody and everything to go to hades!

Have you ever had to hitch-hike, sleep in open fields, or hop a freight train?

'Just run around with the medicine, Bubble,' says he, 'and then you can hike it.

" We had a Dandy hike over to the woods.

Now that there wasn't anything left to do, but tow the stuff down, all the fellows except Westy and I and Pee-wee started to hike it home.

Great Hike; or, the Pride of Khaki Troop.

I certainly shall not consent to hike your place, Maria," he said, perceiving that she was ready to entreat still further.

I wanted to call it the 'Hiking Club'; but Chris was afraid the name would frighten some of themthey'd think a 'hike' meant more than just a walk.

Simoneau was wiry, talking the slang of the New York waterfront, swearing that he would "hike for Attleboro, and hoe potatoes until he died."

"Oh, look," cried "Sahwah" Brewster, excitedly pointing out the figures, "there's Shadow River and the canoe floating upside down, and Ed Roberts serenading Gladysonly it turned out to be Sherry serenading Nyodaand the Hike, and the Fourth of July pageant, and everything!"

SEE Dixon, Franklin W. The outdoor girls on a hike.

Roy Blakeley's go-as-you-please hike.

Roy Blakeley's go-as-you-please hike.

Roy Blakeley's go-as-you-please hike.

The outdoor girls on a hike; or, The mystery of the deserted airplane, by Laura Lee Hope, pseud. of Edward Stratemeyer.

The outdoor girls on a hike.

SEE Dixon, Franklin W. The outdoor girls on a hike.

SEE Dixon, Franklin W. The outdoor girls on a hike.

Roy Blakeley's go-as-you-please hike.

The hike wouldn't be long, she announced.

And aren't there any roads?' "'Why, no,' says I. 'Hike!'

These would be happy to pay a few pennies for a cup of water rather than take the long hike to the Spring themselves; Lindsey would empty bucket after bucket before finally returning to the plantation.

Do we say   haik   or  hike