Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fog; a chill easterly wind accompanied by light fog.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Scot. A fog; esp., a fog or mist with a chill wind.
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- noun coastal
fog along certain lands bordering the North Sea
Etymologies
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From the Scots dictionary: haar (pronounced hahr) – A haar is a type of cold mist or fog from the North Sea which frequently occurs along the East coast.
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From the Scots dictionary: haar (pronounced hahr) – A haar is a type of cold mist or fog from the North Sea which frequently occurs along the East coast.
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Edinburgh "haar," though it was not cold except between midnight and daybreak; the air was thick with fine sand dust, and often she could not see three yards away.
Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary W. P. Livingstone
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A regular St. Andrews "haar;" and St. Andrews people know what that is.
The Laurel Bush Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1856
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On cloudless days in Summer, when the wind dies down, a cold sea fog (known as a "haar") often descends on the city, a metereologically interesting phenomenon of temperature inversion.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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i 'the "killing times," ye ken, preachin' till the puir hill folk, an 'baptizin' their bairns -- he baptized a forebear o 'my ain -- and it would likely be the annivairsary o' the day when he escaped frae the hans o 'the hunters through the "haar," when I chanced to come by here an' saw a bit tent pit up, an 'heard folk carousin' within.
Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease
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Hmmm, als het jouw haar al te kort is dan kom ik zeker een halve meter te kort.
characters nathreee 2010
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Mijn haar groeit snel, maar een halve meter in 4 weken??
characters nathreee 2010
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Overigens had Monique toestemming gegeven voor het publiceren van haar naam en de foto, dus dat was wel netjes geregeld.
Larp in de Gelderlander nathreee 2010
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Dat is waar, maar we kunnen anders Helga's haar proberen ...
characters nathreee 2010
tallpaul commented on the word haar
A dialect word from Scotland and the North of England
December 6, 2006
pendlerpiken commented on the word haar
what a lovely word
December 6, 2006
oroboros commented on the word haar
also, what pirates say! ;^)
December 6, 2006
yarb commented on the word haar
...once, as he was walking along Princes Street on a cruel day when there was an easterly ha'ar blowing off the Firth, she had stepped towards him out of the drizzle, not seeing him but smiling sleepily.
- Rebecca West, The Judge, ii
July 10, 2009
sionnach commented on the word haar
Let's not forget that any locally compact Hausdorff topological group has a unique (up to scalars) nonzero left invariant measure which is finite on compact sets. If the group is Abelian or compact, then this measure is also right invariant and is known as the Haar measure.
July 10, 2009
yarb commented on the word haar
Thanks for the reminder, sionnach.
July 10, 2009
bilby commented on the word haar
haar haar
July 17, 2009
jmjarmstrong commented on the word haar
JM hasn't the foggiest about haar.
February 16, 2011