英:[hɑrl]
美:[hɑl]
英:[hɑrl]
美:[hɑl]
verb
transitive verb
dialectal, British to drag, scrape, or pull (an object) usually along the ground
chiefly Scottish to plaster (a surface) with roughcast
the harled walls with which for many generations the Scots had finished their houses—Ian Finlay
intransitive verb
chiefly British to troll for fish
harling for spring salmon—Atlantic
noun (1)
roughcast wall facing
transitive verb
to snarl up : entangle
or harle to thread one leg of (a dead rabbit) through the other for ease in carrying
noun (2)
a tangled mass : snarl
noun (3)
or harle a fiber in a stalk of flax or hemp
herl
Verb Middle English harlen to drag Transitive verb Middle English harlen to entangle Noun (3) Middle English herle, probably from Middle Low German herle, harle