Harling

The other method of using the fly, harling, which is practised on a few big rivers, consists in trailing the fly behind a boat rowed backward and forwards across the stream and dropping gradually downwards. ❋ Various (N/A)

I say nothing of harling, which is a different matter; you can lounge at your ease in the stern of the boat, with a book in your hand, and trail on until the winch gives you warning that a fish has hooked itself. ❋ William Senior (N/A)

If we're going to seriously tackle retrofit then we need better solutions than slapping on mineral fibre and harling walls in our poorest areas. ❋ Jeff (2009)

The child grows, and the reader discovers that the harling has a half-brother, who is equally important to the events of the story. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A small porch thrust out between the downstairs windows, the harling painted some dun colour that was hard to identify in the weak light shed by the street lamps. ❋ McDermid, Val (2003)

It was a mish-mash of early 60s terraced housing and late '60s tower blocks, everything faced with grey harling, with boring swathes of grass separating the estate from the main road. ❋ Rankin, Ian (1994)

It reminded Rebus mostly of those Swiss chalets you saw on postcards, except that the chalets were always finished in wood, whereas this house was finished in harling. ❋ Rankin, Ian, 1960- (1992)

Two methods of using the fly are in vogue, casting and harling. ❋ Various (N/A)

Above the island the river was a long, broad, dull reach, where a good deal of harling was done by the natives. ❋ William Senior (N/A)

If salmon are not in the humour harling presents the elements of monotony, and the wise plan seems to me not to think of the rods, nor look at them, nor wonder which will be first in action. ❋ William Senior (N/A)

On the first day I travelled unhindered till noon, when I stopped in open country that seemed uninhabited for ages, only that half a mile to the left, on a shaded sward, was a large stone house of artistic design, coated with tinted harling, the roof of red Ruabon tiles, and timbered gables. ❋ Unknown (1906)

Silvery fish were jumping, pursued by some larger fish, and C. and I laid plans to try harling for them after the Shannon or Namsen fashion. ❋ Unknown (1900)

I have both here, and, granted a stay of any time, will try harling. ❋ Unknown (1900)

After harling the rabbit, Orion hangs him high on a projecting branch, so that the man who is following us at a distance may easily find the game. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)

About this time there arose a great sough and surmise, that some loons were playing false with the kirkyard, howking up the bodies from their damp graves, and harling them away to the College. ❋ David Macbeth Moir (1824)

The first view of the estate from Burgess Road confirmed to stereotype - incredibly cheap-looking grey harling, the slurry slathered onto the brick presumably part of the 'vernacular' in the far ❋ Unknown (2010)

No detailed designs for houses have been laid down, though probable guidelines would suggest that they feature timber, local stone and traditional lime harling.