harlharlen.1
1. A filament or fibre (of flax or hemp).
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > flax, hemp, or jute > [noun] > filament or fibre of
shiver1440
harl1652
13.. Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 190 Þe mane of þat mayn hors..Ay a herle of þe here, an oþ er of golde.]
1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved xli. 256 The watering of it [flax] opens, and breakes the harle the best.
1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 54 Beating and often dressing will cause the Harle to open.
1743 Sel. Trans. Soc. Improvers Knowl. Agric. Scotl. 331 (Jam.) Broken pieces of straw, hanging in a great measure loose upon the harle or flax.
1838 H. Colman 1st Rep. Agric. Mass. (Mass. Agric. Surv.) 128 It grew a foot and a half long, bore seed, and had a tolerable good hurl.
1882 F. W. P. Jago Anc. Lang. & Dial. Cornwall Hurle, a filament.
2. A barb or fibre of a feather. Cf. herl n.
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the world > animals > birds > feather > [noun] > part of
pen1381
quill?a1425
dowlc1535
rib1545
web1575
pilec1600
twill1664
beard1688
pinion1691
vane1713
shaft1748
beardlet1804
medulla1826
barb1835
barbule1835
stem1845
feather-pulp1859
aftershaft1867
barbicel1869
filament1870
vexillum1871
scape1872
rachis1874
harl1877
calamus1878
radius1882
ramus1882
scapus1882
cilia1884
a1450 Fysshynge wyth Angle (1883) 35 The body of grene wull & lappyd abowte wyth the herle of the pecoks tayle.]
1877 R. D. Blackmore Cripps ii The ribs and harl of feathers.
1884 St. James's Gaz. 21 June 6/2 The body is made entirely of peacock's harl.
1884 R. D. Blackmore Hist. Sir T. Upmore I. 254 I began to chew the harl [of a quill pen].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
harln.2
dialect.
1. A tangle; a knot; a confusion; figurative mental confusion.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > [noun] > that which is entangled > a tangle
node1572
knarl1598
snarl1609
rivel1625
ravel1634
snick-snarl1649
mare1688
harla1697
tangle1757
round turn1769
fankle1824
twist1858
twitter1876
taut1887
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > weakness of intellect > confusion, muddle-headedness > [noun]
fogginess1648
unconnectedness1772
puzzle-patedness1799
botherheadedness1814
muzziness1814
addlement1825
addle-headedness1835
muddleheadedness1839
woolliness1856
puzzleheadedness1858
harl1889
wooziness1924
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > [noun]
mingingOE
riddleOE
cumbermentc1300
willa1325
encumbrancec1330
were1338
perplexitya1393
discomfiturea1425
cumbrancec1460
confuse1483
proplexity1487
perplexion?c1500
amazedness?1520
amazement1553
subversion1558
amaze?1560
perplexednessa1586
confusedness1587
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confusion1600
mizmaze1604
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mystery1629
confoundedness1641
puzzledness1662
confuseness1710
puzzlement1731
puzzledom1748
embarrassment1751
puzzleation1767
bepuzzlement1806
conjecture1815
mystification1817
bewilderment1819
perplexment1826
fuddle1827
wilderment1830
discomforture1832
head-scratching1832
baffle1843
posement1850
muddlement1857
turbidity1868
fogging1878
bemuddlement1884
harl1889
befuddlement1905
turbidness1906
wuzziness1942
perplexability1999
a1697 J. Aubrey Nat. Hist. Wilts. (1847) i. ix. 51 The grasse..growes no higher than other grasse, but with knotts and harles, like a skeen of silke.
1825 J. Britton Beauties Wiltshire (E.D.S.) Harl, something knotted, or entangled.
1888 B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases (at cited word) If 'e dwoant mind thee 'ooll get that string in a harl.
1889 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (ed. 2) (at cited word) Jimmy H...is e' such 'n a harl as niver was.
2. A leash of hounds. local.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > pack of
kennel?1478
harl1827
1827 Sporting Mag. 21 26 In the [county] I live in, they call a couple and a half, or three hounds, a ‘harl’ of hounds.
1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Harle..(2). Three hounds. Oxon. This corresponds to a leash of greyhounds.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
harln.3
/hɑːl/, U.S. /hɑrl/, Scottish English /harl/ Scottish.
1. The act of harling or dragging.
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1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Harle, the act of dragging.
2. That which is harled or scraped together.
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1808–25 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (at cited word) ‘He got a harle of silver.’
3. A small quantity, a scraping (of anything). Also figurative.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount
speckc725
littleOE
somethingc1200
lutewihtc1230
little whatc1384
ouncec1387
lap1393
smalla1400
modicumc1400
nekedc1400
spota1413
tinec1420
nieveful?a1425
handfulc1443
mouthful?c1450
smatchc1456
weec1480
quern1503
halfpennyworth1533
groatsworth1562
dram1566
shellful1578
trickle1580
snatch1592
sprinkling1594
fleck1598
snip1598
pittance1600
lick1603
fingerful1604
modicum1606
thimbleful1607
flash1614
dasha1616
pipa1616
pickle1629
drachm1635
cue1654
smack1693
starn1720
bit1753
kenning1787
minikin1787
tate1805
starnie1808
sprat1815
harl1821
skerrick1825
smallums1828
huckleberry1832
scrimp1840
thimble1841
smite1843
nattering1859
sensation1859
spurt1859
pauchlea1870
mention1891
sketch1894
sputterings1894
scrappet1901
titch1937
tad1940
skosh1959
smattering1973
1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 400 (Jam.) Ony haurl o' health I had was aye about meal-times.
1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona ix. 101 And see if I cannae get a little harle of justice out of the military man.
4. An implement for ‘harling’ or raking mud or soft manure; a wide hoe-like scraper for scraping the soft mud off roads.
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1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl.
5. A composition of lime and gravel or sand; roughcast.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > plaster > [noun] > rough-cast or pebble-dash
daubing1382
roughcasting1469
temper1594
roughcast1596
rough mortar1703
rough coating1791
slapdash1796
pebble-dashing1826
pebble-dash1831
harl1869
1869 R. L. Stevenson Let. 18 June in Scribner's Mag. (1899) 25 42/1 The houses, white with harl.
1898 J. J. H. Burgess Tang ii. 23 The gable was white, for the ‘harl’ had been picked off in the spring.
1940 ‘M. Innes’ Secret Vanguard ix. 92 The walls of the sort of rough-cast which in Scotland is called harl.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
harlv.1
/hɑːl/, U.S. /hɑrl/, Scottish English /harl/ Scottish and English regional (northern).
1. † b. To drag in a vehicle. Scottish. Obsolete. (Cf. hurl n.)
a. transitive. To drag: usually with the notion of friction or scraping of the ground.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move or cause to move progressively in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > cause to move with friction
harlc1290
hirsle1711
scrape1871
the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > pull > with friction
harlc1290
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 391/4 Alle þat comen bifore him: luþere Men to-drowe And harleden heom out of þe londe.
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 226/245 Þe wynd hem harlede vp & doun: in peryls meni on.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 487 King Richard this noble kniȝt Acres nom so, & harlede so the Sarazins, in eche side aboute.
a1425 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Galba) l. 29533 Cursing es þe fendes lyne Þat harles a man to hell pine.
c1480 (a1400) St. Matthias 442 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 234 In ane rape for-owte chesone þai harlyt hyme one to presone.
a1513 W. Dunbar Ballat Passioun in Poems (1998) I. 35 Thay harlit him furth with raip and corde.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Esdras iv. 48 Yt they shulde harle cedre trees from Libanus vnto Ierusalem.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 2968 A ship..Halyt into havyn, harlit with ropes.
1573 J. Davidson Breif Commendatioun Vprichtnes xxx Harling thame beforr Princes and Kings.
1796 A. Wilson Rab & Ringan 3 Frae house to house they harl'd him to dinner.
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality viii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 195 They should never harle the precious young lad awa' to captivity.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport or convey in a vehicle [verb (transitive)] > by wheeled vehicle
roll?a1505
harlc1600
wheel1601
trundle1773
bowla1822
c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 69 Harling of thame throw the toun in ane cart.
c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 341 The Magistrates causit harrell him in ane cairt throw the toun.
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c. To scrape roads with a ‘harl’. Scottish (southern).
2.
a. intransitive (for reflexive). To drag or trail oneself, to go with dragging feet.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > go on foot [verb (intransitive)] > laboriously or aimlessly
haik?a1500
harl?a1513
trudge1547
palt1560
ploda1566
traipse1593
trash1607
truck1631
tramp1643
vamp1654
trudgea1657
daggle1681
trape1706
trampoose1794
hike1809
slog1872
taigle1886
pudge1891
sludge1908
schlep1937
schlump1957
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 78 And lairdis in silk harlis to the heill.
1710 in Coll. Dying Testimonies (1806) 166 I had heard the curates and harled after the bulk of the..ministers.
1888 W. Black In Far Lochaber vii To go away harling here and harling there out o'er the country.
b. intransitive. To come as if dragged off.
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1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 161 'Till skin in blypes cam haurlin.
3. transitive. To rough-cast with lime mingled with small gravel.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > clad or cover [verb (transitive)] > plaster > with specific material
daub1382
cloamc1460
rowcast1500
clay?1523
dab1577
roughcast1584
cloom1609
chunam1687
sparkle1805
harl1806
slub1823
1754 E. Burt Lett. N. Scotl. I. iii. 65 On the Outside they..face the Work all over with Mortar thrown against it with a Trowel, which they call Harling.
1806 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. IV. 455 The habitations..are generally built of stone and clay, and pointed or harled with lime.
1885 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 441/1 It was whitewashed or ‘harled’ as they say in the North.
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4. intransitive. To troll for fish: see below.
Derivatives
harled adj.
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1884 Queen Victoria More Leaves 348 The inn is merely a small, one-storied, ‘harled’ house.
harling n.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [noun] > fishing with line > with towed line
harling1754
whiffing1836
1754 [see sense 3].
1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling x. 337 The fishing..is mostly from a boat, and the style is called ‘harling’.
1891 Daily News 9 Feb. 6/3 You are rowed about the vast expanse of water in a stout boat, with a large phantom minnow, blue or brown, let out, by fifty yards of line, behind the boat..This is the process of ‘harling’.
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harlv.2
dialect.
1.
a. transitive. To entangle, twist, or knot together; to ravel or confuse.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > entangle or make tangled [verb (transitive)]
windc1315
harlc1400
snarlc1440
tangle1530
ravela1540
crawl1548
entangle1555
intertangle1589
enroot1600
impester1601
fasel1636
perplex1642
fankle1724
warple1768
hankle1781
intertwist1797
taffle1840
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 744 Þe hasel & þe haȝ-þorne were harled al samen.
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1752) 171 [Barley] harled or fallen down.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Harl'd, or hurl'd, warped or crooked.
1881 H. Smith & C. R. Smith Isle of Wight Words Harl, to entangle; to get thread into knots.
b. intransitive (for reflexive). To become entangled, twisted, or confused.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > become tangled [verb (intransitive)]
rivelOE
tangle1575
ravela1585
snarl1600
harl1609
twine1658
reeve1821
foul1835
taffle1840
1609 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie iii. sig. C5v Twisting them [a bundle of reeds or straws] fast togither in your hand, let the band harle or double in the very top of the head.
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1752) 212 If corn harles or lodges, a scythe cannot carry a cradle.
2. transitive. (See quots.)
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1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Harle, to harle a rabbit; to cut and insinuate one hind leg of a rabbit into the other, for the purpose of carrying it on a stick.
1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs.
1878 R. Jefferies Gamekeeper at Home 35 An adept at everything, from ‘harling’ a rabbit upwards.
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