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heer

heer noun: a yarn measure of six hundred yards, or 1/24 of a spindle.

Noun (1)

heer (plural heers)

  1. A yarn measure of six hundred yards, or 1/24 of a spindle.

Noun (2)

heer (plural heers)

  1. A Dutch lord.
    • […] ſo as I was for four Days and Nights together in State of one of your Dutch Heers after a Feaſt, looking ſtill when I ſhould vomere Animam; […]1725, Memorials of Affairs of State in the Reigns of Q. Elizabeth and K. James I. […], volume III, London: […] W. B. for T. Ward, […], page 387
    • Mr Irving, after writing, perhaps after printing one volume, and three-fourths of another, seems to have been suddenly struck with a conviction of the worthlessness of the materials that had thus been passing through his hands, and in a happy day, and a happy hour, he determined to fill up the...1824 September, “Letters of Timothy Tickler, Esq. to Eminent Literary Characters. No. XVIII. To Christopher North, Esq. On the last Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews, and on Washington Irving’s Tales...

Forms of heer

pluralheers

Origin of heer

Uncertain.

Borrowed from Dutch heer.

Questions about heer

What does heer mean?
Heer means a yarn measure of six hundred yards, or 1/24 of a spindle.
What part of speech is heer?
Heer is a noun.
What is the plural of heer?
The plural of heer is heers.

Words near heer in the dictionary

  1. Heepishness
  2. Heeps
  3. Heepses
  4. Heepster
  5. Heepsters
  6. heer
  7. heerabol myrrh
  8. heerabolene
  9. Heerbrugg
  10. heerd
  11. Heerde

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