hards
1 synonym for hards, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — The rough, short fibres left over from flax or hemp.
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”).
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