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heer

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[heer] / hɪər /

noun

  1. an old unit of measure for linen and woolen yarn, equivalent to about 600 yards (550 meters).


Etymology

Origin of heer

1400–50; late Middle English ( Scots ) her ( e ), apparently to be identified with hair ( e ) hair

Example Sentences

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Some Yumans heer me speeking Yuman so gud they give me some Chiken, and I sit rite at there Table.

From The Guardian • Oct. 21, 2017

And in time, so many werds came threw my ears and into my brane, that, if I thought upon them, cud understand Yuman prety gud, if I heer it!

From The Guardian • Oct. 21, 2017

Tam Lin had marked the route with a red pen and added comments using his own creative spelling, such as Ratlesnakes heer and Saw bare under tree.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

“Than shewed he him the litel erthe, that heer is, At regard of the hevenes quantite; And after shewed he him the nyne speres.”

From Astronomical Lore in Chaucer by Grimm, Florence M.

Jacobson, J. "Ernstig bedreigd" "Opgeroepen," een woord naar aanleiding van "Ernstig bedreigd" door den heer J. Jacobson en de daarop gevolgde geschriften van de heeren G.H.

From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)