Source etymology 2
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe short coarser fibers of flax or hemp; tow.
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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