behelp
To help (with); give aid or assistance to.
Verb
- To help (with); give aid or assistance to.
- But we live in a good hope of better times and then, hopefully, will this dessign be excuted; Meanwhile I must behelp myself with this boock, so, as I have found it, and so as it is. - 1713, The records of the Swedish...
- It is said of one of them that at an audience with the Queen of England he was asked whether he was married and, his knowledge of the English language being defective, replied: "No, Your Majesty, behelp me so! - 1933,...
- Filthiness is in their skirts (Lamentations I) and woe behelp them at the second coming. Alleluia. - 1961, John Reeves, A beach of strangers: an excursion:
Origin
From be- + help. Cognate with Scots behelpe (“to assist”), West Frisian beholpje, Dutch behelpen (“to make do”), German behelfen (“to manage”).