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▪ I. heer Sc.|hɪə(r)|
Also hier.
[Origin obscure: connexion with ON. herfa skein has been suggested.]
A measure of linen or woollen yarn containing two cuts, ‘the sixth part of a hesp or hank of yarn, or the twenty-fourth part of a spyndle’ (Jamieson).
1777J. Anderson Observ. Nat. Industry in Farmers' Mag. (1856) Jan. 44 It was so coarse that they could not undertake to draw above ‘forty heeres’ from a pound of it. 1792Statist. Acc. Scotl., Forfarsh. IV. 19 (Jam.) A woman could spin at an average only 3½ hiers in a day.—A hier is 240 threads, or rounds of the reel, each..91 inches long.
▪ II. heer(e
var. here n. Obs., host; obs. ff. hair, haire ns., here adv., higher a. |