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Definition of Kerne
1. a medieval foot soldier [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kerne
Literary usage of Kerne
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"Gentlemen of the jury, Look upon the prisoner, and hearken to hn cause. You shall
understand that he stands indicted by the name of Charle« kerne, ..."
2. The United States Democratic Review by Conrad Swackhamer (1851)
"It is Mr. Ernie kerne I speak to, I believe—Ernie Overton Keme ? ... JV kerne is
a cousin of yours, Mr. kerne, I believe 1 " as he at length looked up, ..."
3. State Papers by Great Britain Record Commission (1834)
"... kerne, we have, according Your Majesties high pleasure in the same, ...
2 " kerne written for by the kerne sente, of that " Kinges Majestie. number. ..."
4. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"kerne. A foot soldier of the Irish troops; represented always as very poor and wild.
... Sometimes kerne is used plurally, or as a collective name : Spent. ..."
5. Biologisches Zentralblatt by Isidor Rosenthal, Georg Thieme (1896)
"Bei den Pflanzen waren so wenig Chromosomen zählende kerne bisher unbekannt, bei
den Tieren sind sie schon längst bei der Ascaris ..."
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