Howd

• Howth, Howth Head: the peninsula that lies to the north-east of Dublin; the name derives from the Danish hoved, "head"
  • A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer

• howd: a lurching, rocking movement

• hod

• howd feeled heavy: head felt heavy → sleepy

• His howd feeled heavy, his hoddit did shake: Finnegan's Wake: "His head felt heavy which made him shake" (just before Tim Finnegan falls from the ladder to his "death")

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