hards

• (General American) IPA^(key): /hɑɹdz/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /hɑːdz/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dz

hards

1. plural of hard

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”).

• hurds

hards (uncountable)

1. The short coarser fibers of flax or hemp; tow.

• tow, oakum

• Dhars, shard

hards

1. plural of hard