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* '''Up, Guards, and at 'em!''' words allegedly spoken by the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo * '''''[[Ulysses]]'' 554.05:''' "Up, guards, and at them!" * '''Sigmund Freud, ''Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious'':''' "Is this the place where Wellington said ‘Up, guards, and at them?’ ... Yes, this is the place. But he never said those words." (Von Falke’s joke) * '''hock, hough:''' to hamstring an animal * '''hack:''' to cut to pieces with a sword ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=goto&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&isize=M&submit=Go+to+page&page=49 A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake] * '''hokum:''' a device found to elicit a display of mirth; something worthless or untrue * '''Tom, Dick and Harry''' → in FW these three represent [[Shem]], [[Shaun]] and the combined Shem-Shaun character who appears also in the guise of Tristan → [[patterjackmartins]] and as the three soldiers. [[Category: Twins]] * '''Kockums:''' Swedish industry created in 1840, with a military activity from 1899. [[Category:Wellington]]

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