harpleat

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English harplen (“to hobble”) + -eat (“-et”), literally little hobbler. Compare also laupeen (“plover”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɔːpˈliːt/

Noun

harpleat

1. snipe

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 45