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† harre, har Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: 1 heorr, hior, 3–5 herre, 4–7 harre, 5–6, 9 dial. har.
[OE. heorr (hior) fem. and m., and heorra m.; the former corresp. to MDu. herre, harre, Du. har, harre, fem., the latter to ON. hjarre, -ri m.:—OTeut. types *herrâ- and *herron-.]
1. The hinge of a door or gate; in modern dialect use, the heel of a gate which bears the hinges: cf. harrow n.2
Beowulf (Z.) 999 Heorras to-hlidene. c725Corpus Gloss. 423 Cardo, heor. c1000Lamb. Ps. cxlvii. 2 [13] (Bosw.) He ᵹestrangode heorran geata ðinra. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 113 Ure helende brac þo þe irene herre and alto shiurede þe ȝiaten. c1386Chaucer Prol. 550 Ther nas no dore þat he ne wolde heue of harre. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. viii. vi. (1495) 304 As the sharp corner of a dore meueth in the herre. 1483Cath. Angl. 176/2 An Harre of a dore, cardo. 1513Douglas æneis ii. ix. [viii.] 72 Furth of har the stapillis hes he bet. 1611Cotgr., Chardonnereau, the harre of a dore; the peece, band, or plate, that runnes along on the hindge-side of some dores. 1893Heslop Northumb. Gloss., Har, the upright pieces of a gate known as the back har and the fore har.
fig.c888K. ælfred Boeth. xxxiv. §7 Seo hior ðe eall god on hwearfaþ. c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 472 Cardenals ben an herre to þe fendis hous.
2. fig. A cardinal point; an important matter.
c1000Sax. Leechd. III. 84 æfter þam feowor heorren heofenes and eorðan. 1388Wyclif Prov. viii. 26 Erthe, and floodis, and the heris of the world. c1440York Myst. xxxi. 143, I hope we gete some harre hastely at hande.
3. out of harre: out of joint, out of order.
a1327Pol. Songs (Camden) 318 Wer never dogges there Hurled out of herre. 1390Gower Conf. II. 139 Wherof this world stant out of herre. c1440J. Capgrave Life St. Kath. ii. 891 More out of herre, Þan is a foole þat can not se be-fore. c1460Towneley Myst. (Surtees) 195 Alle is out of har, and that shalle he yrk. 1526Skelton Mangnyf. 921 All is out of harre. |