Definitions

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  • noun obsolete A hinge.

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  • noun obsolete A hinge.

Etymologies

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Old English, from Anglo-Saxon heorr, hior.

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Examples

  • Ther nas no dore that he nolde58 heve of harre, 59550

    The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. Lines 401-600 1909

  • "Ther was no dore that he nolde heve of _harre_." ll.

    Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

  • "Ther was no dore that he nolde heve of _harre_." ll.

    Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

  • [Musical excerpt -- "Durch mitleid wissend, der reine Thor, harre sein 'den ich erkor."

    A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music Henry Edward Krehbiel 1888

  • And this doth Da - pfa. nj uid expreffcly fet out in theic wordes: With my whole harre I haue » o. fought thee, make me not to ftray from thy commaundementes For when he had bene rcgcncrated, and had not flenderly profited in true Godhnefle, yct he confeflethjthat for euery moment he needcth con - tinuall diredion, leaft he (hoiilde fwarue from the knowledge wher - with he is enducd.

    The institution of christian religion 1578

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