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Alternative form of haar(“sea fog; wind which blows in this fog”).
1812, William Tennant, Anster Fair, a Poem, Chambers, published 1838, page 8:
For lo! now peeping just above the vast / Vault of the German Sea, in east afar, / Appears full many a brig's and schooner's mast, / Their topsails strutting with the vernal harr
1848, William Davidson, “Observations on the Climate of Largs”, in Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 69, "Arran", pages 39–40:
Fogs and harrs are unfrequent, as are constant rain; mornings of drenching flood being often succeeded by bright and beautiful days.
1890, Sarah Tytler, “An Easterly Harr”, in Pot pourri of gifts literary and artistic, page 79:
The harr clung in a close, white drapery to trees; it swallowed up houses ; it obliterated hills.
2007, Colin Simms, Gyrfalcon Poems, →ISBN, page 69:
The eye rubs faintly in the fell fog, is misled by hill mist the high front coming with the Atlantic storm or the harr on the North Sea roke when there's even no moon and no star tempting to say we see him as often as ..... aurora ...
References
John Jamieson (1880) An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, page 489
Joseph Wright, editor (1961), The English Dialect Dictionary: Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect ..., volume 3, page 5: “A northern harr Brings fine weather from far'; n.Yks.* e.Yks. MARSHALL Rur. Econ. ... The harr was very heavy in the marshes this mornin' (THR). 2.”
Bill Griffiths (2005) A Dictionary of North East Dialect, page 80: “... "hare or harr - a mist or thick fog" Brockett Newc & Nth 1829; "harr - a strong fog or wet mist, almost verging on a drizzle" Atkinson Cleve 1868;”
1987, Paul Nooncree Hasluck, “Gates and Rough Fencing”, in The Handyman's Book: Tools, Materials and Processes Employed in Woodworking, →ISBN, page 375:
One of the first places for a gate to go rotten is at the junction of the brace and harr.
^ Orel, Vladimir E. (2000) A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 187
1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 60:
Outh o' harr; Out o' harr.
Out of joint, off hinge.
1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 73:
Udh o' harr.
Out of joint, off hinge.
References
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 44