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harr
noun · DialectThe sea arriving uninvited, wearing grey.
A cold sea fog that rolls in off the water and swallows everything.
In the wild
“A harr came up the estuary and ate the harbour whole.”
Origin
Northern dialect, from Old Norse hárr, 'grey with age'; recorded by Joseph Wright in the English Dialect Dictionary (1898).
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