herlen.
Scottish.
A local name of the heron.
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?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 51 I thoght myself a papingay and him a plukit herle.
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (at cited word) Herle is still the common name in Ang[us].
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