See TANDEM , RANDEM , UNICORN , &c. Hash , a mess, confusion; “a pretty HASH he made of it;” to HASH UP , to jumble together without order or regularity.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten
To prove the story there remained uniform, cocked hat, and sword as well, rescued by Uncle Christopher when the old Bissant house burned, and now hung in the “front hall” of their cottage.
— from Admiral's Light by Henry Milner Rideout
Filson had already gone overland to Louisville and told the authorities of the straits of their brethren at Vincennes, and immediately an expedition was sent to their relief under Captains Hardin and Patton.
— from The Winning of the West, Volume 3 The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 by Theodore Roosevelt
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