Meaning

A fibre, especially a fibre of hemp or flax, or an individual fibre of a feather..

Definitions by Sense

1. A fibre, especially a fibre of hemp or flax, or an individual fibre of a feather.
2. A barb, or barbs, of a fine large feather, as of a peacock or ostrich, used in dressing artificial flies.
3. (transitive) To surface a building using a slurry of pebbles or stone chips which is then cured using a lime render.
4. (transitive, Scotland) To drag along the ground.
5. (intransitive, Scotland) To drag oneself along.
6. To troll for fish.
7. (Scotland) The act of dragging.
8. A small quantity; a scraping of anything.

Example Sentences

She pushed her fingers under the cream lace, into the ginger harl of spun glass.

Should it be desired, however, to run the hackle all over the body, it may be tied on along with the peacock's harls.

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.

Word Forms

• harls
• harling
• harled

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Use harl when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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