noun, feminine/ɛʁs/plural: herses
harrow (device for breaking up soil); portcullis (gate in the form of a grating); spike strip, road spikes, traffic spikes; grate, grill (especially to block large objects floating down a river); candlestick, candelabrum (with a triangular base and spikes to hold large candles)
Inherited from Old French herce, from Latin hirpicem. The initial aspiration is said to be onomatopoetic, but may also be due to influence by the unrelated Germanic words at hand in Old Norse herfi, English harrow.