holp

[ hohlp ]

verb

, Nonstandard: South Midland and Southern U.S.

1. a simple past tense of help.

holp

/ həʊlp /

verb

1. archaic.
   a past tense of help

Example Sentences

She said something that must of been “Lemme holp you up, Will,” and tried to pull me to my feet, whoop!

From Literature

She yelled into my ear, “Kin you crawl, Will? If you cain’t, them men comin' out’n the train can holp you.”

From Literature

“I didn’t like the way Buster looked at me when he said I could holp him in the fields.”

From Literature

He asked Ged about Gont, and then spoke fondly of his own home isles of the East Reach, telling how the smoke of village hearthfires is blown across that quiet sea at evening between the small islands with funny names: Korp, Kopp, and Holp, Venway and Vemish, Iffish, Koppish, and Sneg.

From Literature

In Iffish they say it was Estarriol who sailed that boat, but in Tok they say it was two fishermen blown by a storm far out on the Open Sea, and in Holp the tale is of a Holpish fisherman, and tells that he could not move his boat from the unseen sands it grounded on, and so wanders there yet.

From Literature