hulat

[elmerfud]

what is a hulat

[Clanad]

Doesn't seem to be a "what", but rather, it means to wait or awaiting in Hiligaynon dialect, spoken in small are of Phillipines... may be some other meaning as yet undiscovered by me...

[lodekka]

Is that one hulat, or Three Hulats?

[Quizmonster]

I imagine Lodekka is referring to 'The Three Hulats', a pub in Chapel Allerton in West Yorkshire. The word, as such, is not listed in The Oxford English Dictionary, so it is certainly not a standard English word.

When this question was asked before here on AnswerBank, I suggested it might actually be a mis-spelling of 'hulans'. 'Hulan' is an alternative version of 'uhlan', which means a Polish lancer. Could the pub name, therefore, be 'The Three Lancers' along much the same lines as 'The Three Musketeers'?

Why not phone the pub and ask the landlord?