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Definitions: HARL |
HARLNoun1. A barb, or barbs, of a fine large feather, as of a peacock or ostrich, -- used in dressing artificial flies. 2. A filamentous substance; especially, the filaments of flax or hemp. |
Date "HARL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1677. (references) |
Etymology: Harl \Harl\, noun. [Compare to Old High German. harluf noose, rope; English hards refuse of flax.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: HARL |
| English words defined with "HARL": Herl. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table summarizes the usage of "HARL" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Harl | Last name | 170 | 47,116 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
harl | 19 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "HARL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | hampfiber (harl of hemp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | hennepvezel (harl of hemp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | écouter (hark). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | κλωστική ίνα καννάβεως (harl of hemp), κλωστή λιναÏÎ¹Î¿Ï (harl of hemp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חומר סיבי. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | stiglio della canapa (harl of hemp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arlhay fibra de cânhamo (harl of hemp). (various references) filamento (filament, harl of hemp, strand, thread), fibra de cáñamo (harl of hemp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "HARL": harlequin, harlequinade, harlequinades, harlequins, harlot, harlotries, harlotry, harlots, harls. (additional references) | |
Words containing "HARL": charladies, charlady, charlatan, charlatanism, charlatanisms, charlatanries, charlatanry, charlatans, charley, charleys, charlie, charlies, charlock, charlocks, charlotte, charlottes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "HARL" (pronounced hÄ"rl) |
| 3 | -Ä" r l | Carl, ensnarl, gnarl, snarl. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-l-r" | |
-1 letter: lar, rah. | |
-2 letters: ah, al, ar, ha, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-l-r" | |
+1 letter: haler, harls, hilar, horal, lahar, larch, ralph. | |
+2 letters: archil, archly, ashlar, ashler, awhirl, bharal, chiral, choral, hailer, halers, haleru, halter, hardly, harlot, hartal, hauler, healer, herald, herbal, holard, lahars, lasher, lather, phylar, ralphs, rashly, rhinal, thaler, thrall, whaler. | |
+3 letters: airhole, alphorn, alright, althorn, archils, armhole, ashlars, ashlers, bharals, blather, brashly, burghal, carlish, charily, charley, charlie, charnel, chloral, cholera, chorale, chorals, chordal, choreal, chorial, clasher, earthly, enthral, ephoral, flasher, gharial, hackler, haggler, hailers, halberd, halbert, haltere, halters, halvers, halyard, hamular, handler, hardily, harelip, harlots, harmful, harshly, harslet, hartals, haulers, haulier, haverel, healers, heralds, herbals, hernial, hirable, hoarily, holards, humeral, humoral, inhaler, inthral, larches, largish, larkish, lashers, lashkar, lathers, lathery, lathier, laugher, leacher, leather, loather, marshal, narwhal, philtra, phrasal, plasher, rachial, ralphed, rathole, scholar, shalier, sharply, shoaler, slasher, slather, spheral, thalers, thermal, thralls, trachle, trehala, trochal, whalers. | |
+4 letters: acrolith, aerolith, airholes, alphorns, althorns, amphoral, antheral, archaeal, archival, armholes, arrhizal, ashlared, ashlered, bachelor, blancher, blathers, bleacher, blowhard, brachial, calthrop, chaldron, chalkier, chandler, charcoal, charlady, charleys, charlies, charlock, charnels, chelator, chivalry, chlorals, chlorate, chlordan, choleras, chorales, chorally, chrismal, clashers, clochard, cochlear, dihedral, earlship, earthily, enthrall, enthrals, ethereal, exarchal, fatherly, firehall, flashers, flashier, garishly, gharials, hacklers, hacklier, hagglers, hairball, hairless, hairlike, hairline, hairlock, halberds, halberts, halliard, hallmark, hallower, haltered, halteres, halyards, handlers, handrail, hardball, hardline, harebell, harelike, harelips, harlotry, harmless, harslets, hauliers, haulmier, haulyard, haverels, hearable, heartily, heralded, heraldic, heraldry, heroical, hexaplar, hibernal, hilarity, hireable, hoarsely, hologram, hormonal, horntail, humerals, inhalers, inhauler, inthrall, inthrals, kohlrabi, kreplach, lanthorn, lashkars, lathered, latherer, lathwork, laughers, laughter, launcher, lavisher, leachers, leachier, leathern, leathers, leathery, lethargy, litharge, loathers, longhair, lothario, marshall, marshals, narghile, nargileh, narwhale, narwhals, oligarch, orphical, overhaul, parflesh, parhelia, parhelic, pearlash, phratral, phyllary, pilchard, plashers, plashier, plethora, rachilla, railhead, rakehell, rakishly, ralphing, rashlike, ratholes, rehandle, relaunch, rhonchal, ringhals, scholars, shackler, sharable, shoalier, shrapnel, shrieval, slashers, slathers, splasher, thermals, thirlage, thoracal, thraldom, thralled, thrawnly, thwartly, tracheal, trachled, trachles, trashily, trauchle, trehalas, trochlea, turnhall, ultrahip, ultrahot, urethral, wrathful, wrathily. | |
+5 letters: abolisher, acroliths, aeroliths, algorithm, allethrin, allograph, allomorph, alpenhorn, archangel, archducal, archivolt, ashlaring, ashlering, authorial, bachelors, bearishly, betrothal, bilharzia, blanchers, blathered, blatherer, bleachers, blowhards, brachials, branchial, branchlet, breathily, bronchial, brushland, calthrops, carbachol, cartwheel, catarrhal, cathedral, chairlift, chaldrons, chandlers, chandlery, channeler, chaparral, charbroil, charcoals, charlatan, charlocks, charlotte, charmless, cheerlead, chelators, chelicera, chevalier, chirality, chivalric, chloracne, chlorates, chlordane, chlordans, chlorella, choroidal, chrysalid, chrysalis, clathrate, clochards, crushable, diarrheal, dihedrals, earlships, earthlier, earthlike, earthling, enthralls, ephemeral, fairishly, firehalls, flashcard, flashover, flowchart, foolhardy, gasholder, gearwheel, ghastlier, graphical, haggardly, hailstorm, hairballs, haircloth, hairlines, hairlocks, hairstyle, halliards, hallmarks, hallowers, haltering, handlebar, handrails, harborful, hardballs, harebells, harlequin, harmfully, haulyards, headliner, healthier, heartfelt, heartland, heartless, hemelytra, heralding, herbalist, herculean, heretical, heritable, hilarious, holandric, holidayer, holloware, holograms, holograph, homopolar, honorable, honorably, horizonal, horntails, horseplay, horsetail, hourglass, housecarl, hydraulic, hydrolase, hyperbola, inhalator, inhaulers, inthralls, labyrinth, lachrymal, lagomorph, lakeshore, lanthorns, larghetto, latherers, lathering, lathworks, lathyrism, laughters, launchers, lavishers, leathered, lethargic, litharges, logarithm, logograph, logorrhea, longhairs, lotharios, marchlike, marshalcy, marshaled, marshalls, marshland, monarchal, nailbrush, narghiles, nargilehs, narwhales, northland, ochlocrat, oleograph, oligarchs, oligarchy, overhauls, parfleche, parhelion, parochial, perihelia, phalanger, phalarope, philander, phrasally, pilchards, planisher, plethoras, plowshare, polygraph, polyhedra, preachily, prelaunch, prothalli, rachillae, raffishly, railheads, rakehells, rakehelly, raunchily, reachable, rechannel, rehandled, rehandles, rehearsal, rhizobial, rhizoidal, scholarly, shacklers, shallower, shapelier, shareable, sharklike, shearling, sheldrake, shirttail, shortfall, slathered, slaughter, spherical, splashers, splashier, stalworth, starchily, starlight, teacherly, telegraph, theriacal, thermally, thesaural, thirlages, thraldoms, thralldom, thralling, throatily, thyroidal, tracheole, trachling, trailhead, trauchled, trauchles, trehalose, triathlon, trichinal, trihedral, triumphal, trochleae, trochlear, trochleas, turnhalls, ultrachic, ultraheat, ultrahigh, ultrarich, ultrathin, unearthly, vehicular, wealthier, weatherly, xylograph. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 41 52 4C |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... .- .-. .-.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01000001 01010010 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H A R L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0041 0052 004C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42355246 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Names: Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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