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(noun) - (1) Equivalent to the breeches of a Highlander, or the dress of a naked Pict; upon the presumption that Welchmen wear no hose.
--Thomas Fielding's Select Proverbs of All Nations, 1824
(2) In phrases like "to make a Welshman's hose of" and "to make like a Welshman's hose," to stretch or wrest the meaning of a word, sentence, etc.
--Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1928
January 17, 2018