Lexicographical Neighbors of Durns
Literary usage of Durns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of (1875)
"p. 16. [= Run in, man, mn ! Don't stand loitering at the door-post. WP] Pulman—"
durns. The side-posts of a door. ..."
2. Mineralogia Cornubiensis: A Treatise on Minerals, Mines, and Mining by William Pryce (1778)
"... they make a durns, as they call it, which for a Shaft is ... Between the durns
and the country they ... placed behind each durns ; by which means the ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1875)
"I've jist a started two houses, and I want to bide home a Monday, vor to fix the
durns, eens the masons mid go on—an" I've a-got two pair o' ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, in the by Francis Vesey, Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Scott Eldon, John Beames, Edward Duncan Ingraham (1822)
"... held of the Manor of Battersea and Wandsworth, and of the Manor of durns-
jord; which he did not surrender to the use of his will; and that Lionel, ..."
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