harras
/ˈhæɹəs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.62 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "no Burgess of the said Town, neither inhabitant nor foreigner, should be free to buy or to sell any drove of beasts, harras of horses and mares, or flocks of sheep within the liberties of the said town"
- "There also he keeps a harras of some hundred mares, all which after the fatal day of Culoden became the pray of his enemies."
- "One of the largest harrases of horses she had ever seen hurdled the rolling hill; there had to be hundreds of them, beauties all, with gleaming coats in every shade from light russet to the blackest black"
- "The passing crowds seemed as if they would never end; there were rich men and very poor, priests, soldiers, badged Jews, 'prentices, flocks of sheep, droves of cattle, harrases of horses, and very many horse-drawn carts and ox-wains."
Etymology
From Middle English haras (“herd of stud horses, enclosure for a herd of stud horses”), from Old French haras, haraz.