Hypertext Webster Gateway: "hards"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hards \Hards\, n. pl. [OE. herdes, AS. heordan; akin to G.
hede.]
The refuse or coarse part of fiax; tow.
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