T's the same cretur that haafeat up Eben Squires's little Jo, a year come nex' Faast day.
As she spoke of little Jo, who had been "haaf eat up" by Tige, she could not contain her sympathies, and began to cry.
If you keep down Old Hall Street for haaf a mile, you'll tumble over him, unless yer mind where yer goin'.
I's tooked 'em hum a haaf a bob every night for t' week, and they b'longs to me.
Look here, I'se got haaf a bob, and a good warming into the bargain.
I should like to know, myself, how the varment got along right well, for it was kind in him to let the captin have the biggest haaf o’ the seal, any how.
The old man said he raaly felt sorry at parten company, and when the cake split and separate, he cut off about a haaf o’ pound o’ seal and chucked it to the bear.
I didn't think she washaaf so handsome the feeest time I saw her," answered the New York girl.
Children of dark Thule, know, Those who dwell byhaaf and voe, Where your daring shallops row, Come to share the festal show.
But there are a number of men at the haaf in your district, are there not?
Some of the men who are fishing at the haaf earn as much £15 or £20 as during the summer, and they would not get any one to pay them wages of that amount.
Perhaps you are aware that that is the case in Shetland, and that in the haaf fishing they go out twenty or thirty miles to sea, and remain out only for it single night at a time?
Yes; in a sense it is the haaf fishing, though the saith fishing is with us properly the haaf fishing.
How many boats did you generally employ in the haaf fishing?
There is a regular season for the haaf fishing, lasting from about the 20th of May till the 12th of August.
Therefore, if you were out at the haaf in your large boats, these boats might live through any storm?
In winter and spring these storms are so frequent and so sudden, that it is impossible for open boats to pursue the haaf fishing successfully.
How much will you make for a winter and spring fishing, before the regular haaf fishing begins?
Hay to hold the lease of the island is that they may obtain the fish of the inhabitants, who are bold and successful fishermen, and are more favourably situated for the haaf fishing than any other people in Shetland.
Do you think you could not go out to the haaf with a boat like that in winter as you do in summer?
Were these the small fish caught in the winter, or were they part of the catch of the boats that went to the summer fishing and the haaf fishing?
The men are thus enabled to make more voyages to the haaf than by landing each time at the curing-beach.
An' tha went at th' business o' thy own accord an' managt it i' haaf an hour!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "haaf" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
