Near. Hard means close, pressed close together; hence firm or solid, in close proximity to.
“Hard by a sheltering wood.”
David Mallet: Edwin and Emma.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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