different between yarl vs harl

English

Etymology

Presumably onomatopoeic. Coined by Josh Sinder and Alex Sibbald of the band Hot Rod Lunatics.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /j??l/
• Rhymes: -??(?)l

Noun

yarl (plural yarls)

1. A deep, guttural vocal style with affected pronunciation, characteristic of male grunge and postgrunge singers of the 1990s and early 2000s.
   • 2002, Patrick Berkery, "Record Review", Creative Loafing (Atlanta), 9 January 2002:

     So pontificating on how Weathered's earnest morass of block-headed rage, grunge-lite mega-riffs and singer Scott Stapp's machismo yarl amounts to little more than Pearl Jam circa '91 for dummies is like shooting fish in a barrel.

   • 2008, Michael J. Vaughn, Outro, iUniverse (2008), ?ISBN, page 10:

     One of my college kids informed me that the latest acoustic grinder hunk had covered it for a soundtrack — probably with that grungy yarl that everybody ripped off from Eddie Vedder.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:yarl.

Verb

yarl (third-person singular simple present yarls, present participle yarling, simple past and past participle yarled)

1. To sing in this manner.
   • 2009, Andrew Matson, "Is there any reason to listen to the new Alice in Chains album, "Black Gives Way to Blue"?", The Seattle Times, 21 October 2009:

     On "All Secrets Known," he yarls "fingers" into "fingerrrrrrrraaaaaaughhhhhzzzzzzz."

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:yarl.

References

Anagrams

• Lary, Lyra, RYLA, Rayl, Ryal, aryl, lyar, lyra, ryal

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??l/
• Rhymes: -??(?)l

Etymology 1

Cognate with Middle Low German herle, Low German harle, Saterland Frisian harrel (“hemp fibre”).

Noun

harl (plural harls)

1. A fibre, especially a fibre of hemp or flax, or an individual fibre of a feather.
2. A barb, or barbs, of a fine large feather, as of a peacock or ostrich, used in dressing artificial flies.
   • 1875, Angling, article in Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th Edition, Volume 2, page 44:

     Should it be desired, however, to run the hackle all over the body, it may be tied on along with the peacock's harls.

Verb

harl (third-person singular simple present harls, present participle harling, simple past and past participle harled)

1. (transitive) To surface a building using a slurry of pebbles or stone chips which is then cured using a lime render.

Etymology 2

Verb

harl (third-person singular simple present harls, present participle harling, simple past and past participle harled)

1. (transitive, Scotland) To drag along the ground.
2. (intransitive, Scotland) To drag oneself along.
3. To troll for fish.

Noun

harl (plural harls)

1. (Scotland) The act of dragging.
2. A small quantity; a scraping of anything.

Anagrams

• Lahr, rhlA