harr

plural harrs

1. alternativeAlternative form of haar (“sea fog; wind which blows in this fog”).

   The harr clung in a close, white drapery to trees; it swallowed up houses ; it obliterated hills.

   1890, Sarah Tytler, “An Easterly Harr”, in Pot pourri of gifts literary and artistic, page 79

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   For lo! now peeping just above the vast / Vault of the German Sea, in east afar, / Appears full many a brig's and schooner's mast, / Their topsails strutting with the vernal harr

   1812, William Tennant, Anster Fair, a Poem, Chambers, published 1838, page 8

   Fogs and harrs are unfrequent, as are constant rain; mornings of drenching flood being often succeeded by bright and beautiful days.

   1848, William Davidson, “Observations on the Climate of Largs”, in Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 69, "Arran", pages 39–40

   The eye rubs faintly in the fell fog, is misled by hill mist the high front coming with the Atlantic storm or the harr on the North Sea roke when there's even no moon and no star tempting to say we see him as often as ..... aurora ...

   2007, Colin Simms, Gyrfalcon Poems, →ISBN, page 69

plural harrs

1. businessThe stile that bears the hinges of a gate.

   One of the first places for a gate to go rotten is at the junction of the brace and harr.

   1987, Paul Nooncree Hasluck, “Gates and Rough Fencing”, in The Handyman's Book: Tools, Materials and Processes Employed in Woodworking, →ISBN, page 375

plural Harrs

1. A surname.