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hards

noun
/hɑɹdz/US/hɑːdz/UK

Etymology

From Middle English herdes, hurdes, plural of herde (“piece of hards”), from Old English heordan (“hards of flax, tow”), weak feminine plural of heorde (“headhair”), from Proto-West Germanic *heʀdā, from Proto-Germanic *hezdǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *kes- (“to comb, card”).

  1. derived from *kes-✻ — “to comb, card”
  2. inherited from *hezdǭ✻
  3. inherited from *heʀdā✻
  4. inherited from heordan — “hards of flax, tow”
  5. inherited from herdes

Definitions

  1. plural of hard

  2. The short coarser fibers of flax or hemp

    The short coarser fibers of flax or hemp; tow.

  3. A surname.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hards. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA