harl

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fibre, especially a fibre of hemp or flax, or an individual fibre of a feather.
    — She pushed her fingers under the cream lace, into the ginger harl of spun glass.
  2. The act of dragging. Scotland
  3. A barb, or barbs, of a fine large feather, as of a peacock or ostrich, used in dressing artificial flies.
    — Should it be desired, however, to run the hackle all over the body, it may be tied on along with the peacock's harls.
  4. A small quantity; a scraping of anything.
动词 v.
  1. To surface a building using a slurry of pebbles or stone chips which is then cured using a lime render. transitive
    — The east side facade is of rubble, studded with small windows and mannered details, while the harled rear (south) wall forms, as completed, a towering, roughly symmetrical grouping.
  2. To drag along the ground. Scotland,transitive
  3. To drag oneself along. Scotland,intransitive
  4. To troll for fish.

词形变化

harls plural harls present,singular,third-person harling participle,present harled participle,past harled past harls present,singular,third-person harling participle,present harled participle,past harled past harls plural

词源

Cognate with Middle Low German herle, Low German harle, Saterland Frisian harrel (“hemp fibre”).
0 次浏览 数据来源: Wiktionary