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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tallpaul commented on the word haar
A dialect word from Scotland and the North of England
December 6, 2006
pendlerpiken commented on the word haar
what a lovely word
December 6, 2006
oroboros commented on the word haar
also, what pirates say! ;^)
December 6, 2006
yarb commented on the word haar
...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
sionnach commented on the word haar
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
yarb commented on the word haar
Thanks for the reminder, sionnach.
July 10, 2009
bilby commented on the word haar
haar haar
July 17, 2009
jmjarmstrong commented on the word haar
JM hasn't the foggiest about haar.
February 16, 2011