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Examples
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In a sense, doubtless, so she was, but the description given by the credulous of how, on her marriage night, Janet Dalrymple was "harled" through the house by evil spirits in such a way as to cause her death shortly afterwards, is slightly at variance with the actual facts.
Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang
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It is "harled" without and painted white, and is built around three sides of a sunny court.
McClure's Magazine December, 1895 Ida M. Tarbell 1900
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Scotland "harled") and a roof of small yellowish flagstones, set in
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The church is of basic design – the tiny, harled building has no belfry – and is surrounded by an old kirkyard.
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It was larger than I had expected; a handsome three-story manor of harled white stone, windows outlined in the natural grey stone, a high slate roof with multiple chimneys, and several smaller whitewashed buildings clustered about it, like chicks about a hen.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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The dacoits were reported to have a few gunshots & to have harled bombs while escaping.
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Externally the building form is largely derived from traditional early Shetland buildings - Lodberries, whose gable ends rise from the sea - and is constructed of traditional materials of harled masonry walls, timber windows and slate pitched roofs.
Shetland Museum Wins Top Prize Thatsnews 2008
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We have, in Scotland, far fewer ancient buildings, above all in country places; and those that we have are all of hewn or harled masonry.
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It was true: the harled walls of this one block were cleaner than the others.
Fleshmarket Close Rankin, Ian 2004
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Plenty of satellite dishes attached to the harled walls.
Fleshmarket Close Rankin, Ian 2004
Ricardo4419 commented on the word harled
As you can see from the examples "white-harled archways" and "rough-harled wall" --- it seems to refer to rough-textured wall surfaces.
October 1, 2009