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harl¹

  • /hɑːl/

Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)l

Where it comes from

Cognate with Middle Low German herle, Low German harle, Saterland Frisian harrel (“hemp fibre”).

noun harls

  1. A fibre, especially a fibre of hemp or flax, or an individual fibre of a feather. She pushed her fingers under the cream lace, into the ginger harl of spun glass.
  2. A barb, or barbs, of a fine large feather, as of a peacock or ostrich, used in dressing artificial flies. Should it be desired, however, to run the hackle all over the body, it may be tied on along with the peacock's harls.

verb harls · harling · harled

  1. transitive To surface a building using a slurry of pebbles or stone chips which is then cured using a lime render. The east side facade is of rubble, studded with small windows and mannered details, while the harled rear (south) wall forms, as completed, a towering, roughly symmetrical grouping.

harl²

  • /hɑːl/

Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)l

verb harls · harling · harled

  1. Scotland, transitive To drag along the ground.
  2. Scotland, intransitive To drag oneself along.
  3. To troll for fish.

noun harls

  1. Scotland The act of dragging.
  2. A small quantity; a scraping of anything.

Harl³

proper noun

  1. A male given name.

Harl⁴

Where it comes from

Borrowed from German Harl.

proper noun Harls

  1. A surname from German.

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@misc{harl_2026,
  title = {harl},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/harl},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}