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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Hersle, v. [Var. of Hirsill v.] intr. To slide with grazing, to grate against. —1666-7 Blakhall Narr. 154.
The side of the shippe hersled so rudely against the last corner of the rock, that the skipper thought that a planck had bein rugged of of her side
