Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as haggard.
  • noun See haggard.

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  • noun Ireland, dated a farmyard or small enclosed field; a vegetable patch or kitchen garden

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Examples

  • "haggart" (a few perches of garden) on which to grow any household vegetables.

    Ireland Since Parnell 1910

  • He might even, while he was about it, deal some stout blows at his hag (or, as my old nurse would say, his ‘haggart’) of a mother.

    The Guermantes Way 2003

  • Kevin's aunt Mary remembers there being a well where our back door now hangs, and haggart is Irish for a field.

    Top stories from Times Online 2010

  • Kerry served the US of A with honoe and distinction. which is more than you can say.idiot. and we know who didn’t serve in Vietnam, bush cheney rumsfeld rush orielly beck limpballs haggart delay …. .the list of conservofacists who were cowards when it was their turn is endless. idiot.

    Think Progress » For eighth day, climate activists block bulldozers at WV’s Coal River Mountain. 2010

  • The crowd outside was increasing every instant, and you need not have looked at their faces twice, to perceive that they had regarded Mickey as an approver; and the same night that saw the MacNeills in custody, witnessed the burning of Sheehan's house and haggart, and he only escaped by a miracle over to Curryglass, where, once under my protection, with the imputation upon his character of having turned King's evidence, I had little trouble in persuading him that he might as well benefit by the report as enjoy the name without the gain.

    The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete Charles James Lever 1839

  • The crowd outside was increasing every instant, and you need not have looked at their faces twice, to perceive that they had regarded Mickey as an approver; and the same night that saw the MacNeills in custody, witnessed the burning of Sheehan's house and haggart, and he only escaped by a miracle over to Curryglass, where, once under my protection, with the imputation upon his character of having turned King's evidence, I had little trouble in persuading him that he might as well benefit by the report as enjoy the name without the gain.

    The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 3 Charles James Lever 1839

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  • Art made by haggard old crones.

    January 15, 2008