Etymology
Cognate with Middle Low German herle, Low German
harle, East Frisian harrel ‘hemp fibre’.
Noun
- a fibre, especially a fibre of hemp or flax, or an individual fibre of a feather
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- 1974: She pushed her fingers under the cream lace, into the ginger harl of spun glass. — Guy Davenport, Tatlin!
