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hunkse

verbaction

Lift or heft onto one's shoulder

To raise or heft something up, especially to lift it onto one's shoulder.

Example in use

Gie's a haand, I'll hunkse the creel.

Pronunciation

Say it like this

/HUNK-suh/

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Origin & context

scotscurrentneutral

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