heern.
/hɪə/, U.S. /hɪ(ə)r/, Scottish English /hir/ Scottish.
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).
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1774 ‘Agricola’ in Weekly Mag. 8 Sept. 44 It was so coarse that they could not undertake to draw above forty heeres from the..pound.
1792 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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