The English Dialect Dictionary, Vol. 3: Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect Words Still in Use, or Known to Have Been in Use During the Last Two Hundred Years (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Sig. In the months of April and May, easterly winds, commonly called Haars, usually blow with great violence, N immo Stirlingshire (1777) 438 Cld. The cold damp called Easterly-hars, so prevalent on the east coast, seldom arrive here, A gric. Surv. 4 Fit'. Their topsails strutting with the vernal harr, tennant Anster (1812) 23, ed. 1871 This parish [st. Andrews] is well acquainted with the cold, damp easterly winds, or haar of April and May, Statist. Ace. XIII. 197.

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