Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A merganser; specifically, the red-breasted merganser, Mergus serrator. Also harlan, herald.
Wiktionary
- n. A bird, the red-breasted merganser.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) The red-breasted merganser.
Examples
“She had tied a green head-scarf over her chestnut hair, and she wore a black and white harle - quined skiing jacket to keep out the cold.”
“I have a plan to waylay the witnesses upon the road, and see if I cannae get I a little harle of justice out of the MILITARY MAN NOTORIOUSLY”
“I have a plan to waylay the witnesses upon the road, and see if I cannae get a little harle of justice out of the”
“But you may safely stay to harle him; for those very echoes that have been heard a mile round about are the best safeguard: not one man in a thousand could tell the true direction whence the sound of the explosion originated.”
“To 'harle,' to draw to one's-self by gripping or violent means.”
“--- Your guard soldiers, and your constables, and your officers, ken us weel eneugh when they rive the bits o 'duds aff our backs, and take what penny o' siller we hae, and harle us to the Correctionhouse in Leith Wynd, and pettle us up wi 'bread and water and siclike sunkets.' ”
“-- Your guard soldiers, and your constables, and your officers, ken us weel eneugh when they rive the bits o 'duds aff our backs, and take what penny o' siller we hae, and harle us to the”
“Haud yere tongue, ye cowardly loon," said the mother, "and layna the wyte on me; if you and thae thowless gluttons, that are sitting staring like cows bursting on clover, wad testify wi 'your hands as I have testified wi' my tongue, they should never harle the precious young lad awa 'to captivity.”
“Your guard soldiers, and your constables, and your officers, ken us weel eneugh when they rive the bits o’ duds aff our backs, and take what penny o’ siller we hae, and harle us to the”
“I have a plan to waylay the witnesses upon the road, and see if I cannae get I a little harle of justice out of the MILITARY MAN NOTORIOUSLY IGNORANT OF THE LAW that shall command the party. ”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘harle’.
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Bird Wirds: Sundry Nicknames
A list of birders' "shorthand" names, traditional nicknames, non-English names, and obsolete names for feathered creatures worldwide.
Interesting blog entry here on naming U.S. birds.welsh ambassador, goatsucker, french magpie, timberdoodle, butterbutt, popinjay, logcock, old cranky, long john, sprog, butterbum, wedgie and 697 more...
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A Provincial Glossary, 1787
A list of provincial English words that appear in Francis Grose's A Provincial Glossary, with a Collection of Local Proverbs and Popular Superstitions. London, MDCCLXXXVII. Printed for S. Hooper, N...
tharky, velling, cadma, whinnock, caingel, giglet, gill-houter, leasing, leech-way, dellfin, underwood, dilvered and 193 more...
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Dr. Jamieson's Birds
A rich list of Scottish bird (nick)names and related terms cited in Dr. Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary and Supplement, 1841.
stone-chatter, clocharet, bowger, coulter-neb, branchers, brissel-cock, turkey-cock, brongie, bubblyjock, polliecock, bullfit, bullfrench and 220 more...
Tweets
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hernesheir To cut and insinuate one hind leg of a rabbit into the other, for the purpose of carrying it on a stick. To harle a rabbit. - an old provincial term from the west of England.
The red-breasted merganser. - Century Dictionary and GNU Webster's 1913 Dictionary. May 3, 2011