harl

Meanings

Noun

• A fibre, especially a fibre of hemp or flax, or an individual fibre of a feather.
• A barb, or barbs, of a fine large feather, as of a peacock or ostrich, used in dressing artificial flies.
• The act of dragging.
• A small quantity; a scraping of anything.

Verb

• To surface a building using a slurry of pebbles or stone chips which is then cured using a lime render.
• To drag along the ground.
• To drag oneself along.
• To troll for fish.

Origin

• Cognate with Middle Low German herle, Low German harle, Saterland Frisian harrel ("hemp fibre").