harl /hɑːl/verb 4noun 4forms 3 verb4 •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 •(Scotland) To drag along the ground. •(Scotland) To drag oneself along. •To troll for fish. noun4 •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 •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 •A small quantity; a scraping of anything. •(Scotland) The act of dragging. formsharled · harling · harls
