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HARL

Definitions: HARL

HARL

Noun

1. 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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)

 

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Crosswords: HARL

English words defined with "HARL": Herl. (references)

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Commercial Usage: HARL

DomainTitle

Books

  • Altenglische Dichtungen Des MS. Harl. 2253. Mit Grammatik und Glossar Hrsg. Berlin 1878. Reprint. (reference)

  • Chaucer's Troylus and Cryseyde (from the Harl. ms. 3943) compared with Boccaccio's Filostrato (reference)

  • Harl Superromance (reference)

  • Selon les Septante : trente études sur la Bible grecque des Septante : en hommage à Marguerite Harl (reference)

  • The Canterbury Benedictional: (British Museum, Harl, MS 2892) (Henry Bradshaw Society, Vol 51) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: HARL

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.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
HarlLast name17047,116
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: HARL

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

harl

19
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: HARL

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

   

Portuguese

  

fibra de cânhamo (harl of hemp). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

filamento (filament, harl of hemp, strand, thread), fibra de cáñamo (harl of hemp). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: HARL

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).

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Rhyming with "HARL"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "HARL" (pronounced hÄ"rl)
3-Ä" r lCarl, ensnarl, gnarl, snarl.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: HARL

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: HARL


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 41 52 4C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01000001 01010010 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#65 &#82 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0041 0052 004C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

42355246

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INDEX

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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