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Harry   /hˈɛri/   Listen
proper noun
Harry  n.  Harold or Henry; a nickname.


verb
Harry  v. t.  (past & past part. harried; pres. part. harrying)  
1.
To strip; to pillage; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land. "To harry this beautiful region." "A red squirrel had harried the nest of a wood thrush."
2.
To agitate; to worry; to harrow; to harass.
Synonyms: To ravage; plunder; pillage; lay waste; vex; tease; worry; annoy; harass.


Harry  v. i.  To make a predatory incursion; to plunder or lay waste. (Obs.)





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"Harry" Quotes from Famous Books



... courage to work on. But, somehow or other, I had a notion that this particular business would turn up trumps. The way seemed a little clearer than it usually is; but not clear enough to tempt Tom, Dick, and Harry. And then, again, I had learnt a good many secrets from the experience of my failures. I was well up to my work. I might have carried it on, and I ought to have carried it on, without help; but I was getting worn out and lazy, so I let you into my secret, having taken it into my head that ...
— Birds of Prey • M. E. Braddon
... up panting and Jack said, "Here you are, Harry. Shove that on, and jump. Jump to windward." The smack reared up; there was a long crashing rush of the swift water; then Jack saw the liquid darkness over him, and he was just beginning to hear that awful buzzing in the ...
— The Chequers - Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in - a Loafer's Diary • James Runciman
... come into her acquaintance a product of Chicago whom she could not fit into Mr. Price's city chap category. This was Harry Boland. ...
— Little Lost Sister • Virginia Brooks
... about knocked the breath out of me," said the man in a more natural voice and one which Jerry now recognized as belonging to Harry Barton, the clerk ...
— The Circus Comes to Town • Lebbeus Mitchell
... took place among the soldiers, for after 88 the mutiny at Ticinum[425] there were ceaseless quarrels between the legions and the auxiliaries. They only united to harry the villagers. The worst bloodshed took place at the seventh milestone from Rome. Here Vitellius had ready-cooked food served to each of the soldiers, as is done with gladiators in training, and the common people flocked out from ...
— Tacitus: The Histories, Volumes I and II • Caius Cornelius Tacitus


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