harl

noun

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. 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.”

3. (Scotland)The act of dragging.
4. A small quantity; a scraping of anything.

verb

1. (transitive)To surface a building using a slurry of pebbles or stone chips which is then cured using a lime render.

   “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. (Scotland, transitive)To drag along the ground.
3. (Scotland, intransitive)To drag oneself along.
4. To troll for fish.

name

1. A male given name.
2. A surname from German.