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harr

harr is the alternative form of haar.

Meaning of haar

Noun

haar (countable and uncountable, plural haars)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, especially) Thick, cold, wet fog along the northeastern coast of Northern England and Scotland.
    • The traffic noise used to be constant, at times as thick as the haar, the sea fog that sometimes rolls in here from the North Sea.2020, David Farrier, “The Insatiable Road”, in Footprints, 4th estate, →ISBN
  2. (Scotland, especially) A wind, especially one from the east, which blows in this fog.
    • […] westerly haar, which wraps everything up in white wool, and blots out sea and sky, and chokes the depressed wayfarer-not to speak of the penetrating chill which even in June goes down into the marrow of your bones, and makes the[…]1873, Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret), May. [A Novel.], page 73

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Noun

harr (plural harrs)

  1. The stile that bears the hinges of a gate.
    • One of the first places for a gate to go rotten is at the junction of the brace and harr.1987, Paul Nooncree Hasluck, “Gates and Rough Fencing”, in The Handyman's Book: Tools, Materials and Processes Employed in Woodworking, →ISBN, page 375

Proper noun capitalized: Harr

Harr (plural Harrs)

  1. A surname.

Forms of harr

Noun
pluralharrs
Proper noun
pluralHarrs

Origin of harr

See haar.

See English har.

* As a North German surname, from variants/ancestors of the noun Heer (“army”), similar to Herbert, Hermann. * As an English surname, variant of Hare.

Questions about harr

What does harr mean?
Harr means the stile that bears the hinges of a gate.
What is harr the alternative form of?
Harr is the alternative form of haar.
What part of speech is harr?
Harr can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of harr?
The plural of harr is harrs.

Words near harr in the dictionary

  1. harquebusiers
  2. harquebuss
  3. harquebusses
  4. harquebuze
  5. harquebuzes
  6. harr
  7. harrage
  8. harraged
  9. harrages
  10. harraging
  11. Harrah

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Adapted from Wiktionary: harr (page history and authors); Harr (page history and authors); haar (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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