Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A fog; a chill easterly wind accompanied by light fog.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Scot. A fog; esp., a fog or mist with a chill wind.

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  • noun coastal fog along certain lands bordering the North Sea

Etymologies

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From Scots.

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  • A dialect word from Scotland and the North of England

    December 6, 2006

  • what a lovely word

    December 6, 2006

  • also, what pirates say! ;^)

    December 6, 2006

  • ...once, as he was walking along Princes Street on a cruel day when there was an easterly ha'ar blowing off the Firth, she had stepped towards him out of the drizzle, not seeing him but smiling sleepily.

    - Rebecca West, The Judge, ii

    July 10, 2009

  • Let's not forget that any locally compact Hausdorff topological group has a unique (up to scalars) nonzero left invariant measure which is finite on compact sets. If the group is Abelian or compact, then this measure is also right invariant and is known as the Haar measure.

    July 10, 2009

  • Thanks for the reminder, sionnach.

    July 10, 2009

  • haar haar

    July 17, 2009

  • JM hasn't the foggiest about haar.

    February 16, 2011