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Definition of Harelds
1. hareld [n] - See also: hareld
Lexicographical Neighbors of Harelds
Literary usage of Harelds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1880)
"It's the calendar that shows me the time o' year. When I notice the lang wedges
o' wild swans and bean geese and loons and lang-tailed harelds and eider ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1863)
"... in thousands and tens of thousands, blackening all the air; swans and brant
geese, harlequins and eiders, harelds and ..."
3. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1880)
"It's the calendar that shows me the time o' year. When I notice the lang wedges
o' wild swans and bean geese and loons and lang-tailed harelds and eider ..."
4. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"To the first or oceanic section of ducks belong Scoters, Garrots, Eiders, Pochards,
Scaups, harelds, &c.; to the second section belong ..."
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