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▪ I. harl, harle, n.1
Also 9 dial. hurle: see also herl.
[app. = MLG. herle, harle, harrel, harl, LG. harl, EFris. harrel fibre of flax or hemp.]
1. A filament or fibre (of flax or hemp).
[13..see herl 1.] 1649W. Blithe Eng. Improv. Impr. (1653) 262 The watering of it [flax] opens, and breakes the harle the best. 1677A. Yarranton Eng. Improv. 54 Beating and often dressing will cause the Harle to open. 1743Maxwell Sel. Trans. Soc. Impr. Agric. Scot. 331 (Jam.) Broken pieces of straw, hanging in a great measure loose upon the harle or flax. 1882Jago Cornw. Gloss., Hurle, a filament.
2. A barb or fibre of a feather: cf. herl.
[a1450, etc. see herl 2.] 1877Blackmore Cripps ii, The ribs and harl of feathers. 1884St. James' Gaz. 21 June 6/2 The body is made entirely of peacock's harl. 1884Blackmore Tommy Upm. I. 254, I began to chew the harl [of a quill pen].
▪ II. harl, n.2 dial.
[f. harl v.2]
1. A tangle; a knot; a confusion; fig. mental confusion.
a1697Aubrey Nat. Hist. Wilts 51. 1825 Britton Beauties Wilts (E.D.S.), Harl, something knotted, or entangled. 1889N.W. Linc. Gloss. s.v., Jimmy H...is e' such 'n a harl as niver was. 1888Berksh. Gloss. s.v., If 'e dwoant mind thee 'ooll get that string in a harl.
2. A leash of hounds. local.
1827Sporting Mag. XXI. 26 In the [county] I live in, they call a couple and a half, or three hounds, a ‘harl’ of hounds. 1847–78Halliwell, Harle..(2). Three hounds. Oxon. This corresponds to a leash of greyhounds.
▪ III. harl, n.3 Sc.
[f. harl v.1]
1. The act of harling or dragging.
1808–18in Jamieson.
2. That which is harled or scraped together.
1808–25Jamieson s.v., ‘He got a harle of silver.’
3. A small quantity, a scraping (of anything). Also fig.
1821Blackw. Mag. Jan. 400 (Jam.) Ony haurl o' health I had was aye about meal-times. 1893Stevenson Catriona 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.
1825in Jamieson.
5. A composition of lime and gravel or sand; roughcast.
1869R. L. Stevenson Let. 18 June in Scribner's Mag. (1899) XXV. 42/1 The houses, white with harl. 1898J. J. 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.
▪ IV. harl, v.1 Sc. and north.
Also 3–9 harle, 6 harrell, 6 Sc. haurl.
[Origin unknown.
Although there are instances of confusion (perh. only scribal) of harl and hurl, the two verbs appear to be distinct; in mod. Sc. they are distinct in use.]
1. trans. To drag: usually with the notion of friction or scraping of the ground.
c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 391/4 Alle þat comen bifore him: luþere Men to-drowe And harleden heom out of þe londe. Ibid. 226/245 Þe wynd hem harlede vp & doun: in peryls meni on. 1297R. Glouc. (1724) 487 King Richard this noble kniȝt Acres nom so, & harlede so the Sarazins, in eche side aboute. a1300Cursor M. 29533 (Cott. Galba) Cursing es þe fendes lyne Þat harles a man to hell pine. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Barnabas 442 In ane rape for-owte chesone Þai harlyt hyme one to presone. c1400Destr. Troy 2968 A ship..Halyt into havyn, harlit with ropes. 1500–20Dunbar Poems lxxii. 52 Thai harlit him furth with raip and corde. 1535Coverdale 1 Esdras iv. 48 Yt they shulde harle cedre trees from Libanus vnto Ierusalem. 1573J. Davidson Commend. Uprichtnes xxx, Harling thame beforr Princes and Kings. a1813A. Wilson Rab & Ringan Poet. Wks. 147 Frae house to house they harled him to dinner. 1816Scott Old Mort. viii, They should never harle the precious young lad awa' to captivity.
†b. To drag in a vehicle. Sc. Obs. (Cf. hurl.)
1557–75Diurn. Occurr. (Bannatyne) 69 Harling of thame throw the toun in ane cart. a1575Ibid. 341 The Magistrates causit harrell him in ane cairt throw the toun.
c. To scrape roads with a ‘harl’. South Scotl.
2. intr. (for refl.) To drag or trail oneself, to go with dragging feet.
1500–20Dunbar Poems xxxix. 29 And lairdis in silk harlis to the eill. 1710in Collect. Dying Testimonies (1806) 166, I had heard the curates and harled after the bulk of the..ministers. 1888Black In Far Lochaber vii, To go away harling here and harling there out o'er the country.
b. intr. To come as if dragged off.
1785Burns Halloween xxiii, 'Till skin in blypes came haurlin.
3. trans. To rough-cast with lime mingled with small gravel.
c1730[see harling below]. 1805Forsyth Beauties Scotl. IV. 455 The habitations..are generally built of stone and clay, and pointed or harled with lime. 1885Blackw. Mag. Apr. 441/1 It was whitewashed or ‘harled’ as they say in the North.
4. intr. To troll for fish: see below.
Hence harled ppl. a., harling vbl. n.
c1730Burt Lett. N. Scotl. (1754) I. 65 On the outside they..face the work all over with mortar thrown against it with a trowel, which they call harling. 1867F. Francis Angling x. (1880) 385 The fishing..is mostly from a boat, and the style is called ‘harling’. 1884Queen Victoria More Leaves 348 The inn is merely a small, one-storied, ‘harled’ house. 1891Daily 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’.
▪ V. harl, v.2 dial.
[Etymol. uncertain.
Prob., from the sense, a different word from prec.]
1. trans. To entangle, twist, or knot together; to ravel or confuse.
13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 744 Þe hasel & þe haȝ-þorne were harled al samen. a1722Lisle Husb. (1752) 171 [Barley] harled or fallen down. 1876Whitby Gloss., Harl'd, or hurl'd, warped or crooked. 1881Isle of Wight Gloss., Harl, to entangle; to get thread into knots.
b. intr. (for refl.) To become entangled, twisted, or confused.
1609C. Butler Fem. Mon. C v b, Twisting them [a bundle of reeds or straws] fast together in your hand, let the band harle or double in the very top of the Head. a1722Lisle Husb. (1752) 212 If corn harles or lodges, a scythe cannot carry a cradle.
2. trans. (See quots.)
1787Grose 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. 1877N.W. Linc. Gloss. 1878Jefferies Gamekeeper at H. 35 An adept at everything, from ‘harling’ a rabbit upwards. |