Cognate with Middle Low German herle, Low German harle, Saterland Frisian harrel (“hemp fibre”).
Meanings
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. 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
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. 1875, Angling, 9th edition, volume 2, Encyclopædia Britannica, page 44:
Cognate with Middle Low German herle, Low German harle, Saterland Frisian harrel (“hemp fibre”).
Meanings
(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. 1996, Miles Glendinning, Ranald MacInnes, Aonghus MacKechnie, A History of Scottish Architecture, →ISBN, page 361: