Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A merganser; specifically, the red-breasted merganser, Mergus serrator. Also harlan, herald.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The red-breasted merganser.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A bird, the red-breasted
merganser .
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Examples
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She had tied a green head-scarf over her chestnut hair, and she wore a black and white harle - quined skiing jacket to keep out the cold.
For Kicks Francis, Dick, 1920- 1965
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I have a plan to waylay the witnesses upon the road, and see if I cannae get I a little harle of justice out of the MILITARY MAN NOTORIOUSLY
Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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I have a plan to waylay the witnesses upon the road, and see if I cannae get a little harle of justice out of the
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But you may safely stay to harle him; for those very echoes that have been heard a mile round about are the best safeguard: not one man in a thousand could tell the true direction whence the sound of the explosion originated.
The Amateur Poacher Richard Jefferies 1867
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"To 'harle,' to draw to one's-self by gripping or violent means."
The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836
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--- Your guard soldiers, and your constables, and your officers, ken us weel eneugh when they rive the bits o 'duds aff our backs, and take what penny o' siller we hae, and harle us to the Correctionhouse in Leith Wynd, and pettle us up wi 'bread and water and siclike sunkets.' '
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-- Your guard soldiers, and your constables, and your officers, ken us weel eneugh when they rive the bits o 'duds aff our backs, and take what penny o' siller we hae, and harle us to the
The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801
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"Haud yere tongue, ye cowardly loon," said the mother, "and layna the wyte on me; if you and thae thowless gluttons, that are sitting staring like cows bursting on clover, wad testify wi 'your hands as I have testified wi' my tongue, they should never harle the precious young lad awa 'to captivity."
Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801
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"Haud yere tongue, ye cowardly loon," said the mother, "and layna the wyte on me; if you and thae thowless gluttons, that are sitting staring like cows bursting on clover, wad testify wi 'your hands as I have testified wi' my tongue, they should never harle the precious young lad awa 'to captivity."
Old Mortality, Volume 1. Walter Scott 1801
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-- Your guard soldiers, and your constables, and your officers, ken us weel eneugh when they rive the bits o 'duds aff our backs, and take what penny o' siller we hae, and harle us to the
The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801
hernesheir commented on the word harle
To cut and insinuate one hind leg of a rabbit into the other, for the purpose of carrying it on a stick. To harle a rabbit. - an old provincial term from the west of England.
The red-breasted merganser. - Century Dictionary and GNU Webster's 1913 Dictionary.
May 3, 2011