shears

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The girls had come in wet through, with one of those sudden "haars" which are not uncommon at St. Andrews in spring, and it seemed likely to last all day.

From The Laurel Bush by Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

Aw, awm convinced by thee alone, This grate important truth ta awn, On thee aw furst saw life, ’tis knawn,             E mortal birth; Till a few fleetin haars flown,             Then back ta earth.

From Random Rhymes and Rambles by Wright, William Aldis

"That's all right," sed Broddington, "nah awl goa hooam an' get to bed an' have a few haars sleep afoor tha comes."

From Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley by Hartley, John

Soa Mabel went hooam wi a happy heart, an caanted th' haars wol next Wednesday, when shoo'd see her dear Sydney Algernon ageean.

From Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect by Hartley, John

In abaat two haars, th' old man coom back, an browt th' license an' th' parson wi' him.

From Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley by Hartley, John