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Wharl vs Harl - What's the difference?

wharl | harl |

As nouns the difference between wharl and harl

is that wharl is (medicine) a rattling or uvular utterance of the r-sound while harl is a fibre, especially a fibre of hemp or flax, or an individual fibre of a feather.

wharl

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (medicine) A rattling or uvular utterance of the r-sound.

    • Synonyms

    * burr

    harl

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a fibre, especially a fibre of hemp or flax, or an individual fibre of a feather
  • :* 1974': She pushed her fingers under the cream lace, into the ginger '''harl of spun glass. — Guy Davenport, ''Tatlin!
  • A barb, or barbs, of a fine large feather, as of a peacock or ostrich, used in dressing artificial flies.