Definition of Kirns

1. kirn [v] - See also: kirn

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kirns

kirkmaister
kirkman
kirkmen
kirks
kirkton
kirktons
kirkward
kirkyard
kirkyards
kirmess
kirmesses
kirn
kirned
kirner deformity
kirning
kirns (current term)
kirpan
kirpans
kirri
kirris
kirs
kirsch
kirsches
kirschsteinite
kirschsteinites
kirsome
kirtan
kirtankar

Literary usage of Kirns

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1884)
"Beach. 8 Capacious. «Wipe. The sweetest still to wife or maid, Was whistle owre the lave o't. At kirns and weddings we'se be there, ..."

2. The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia by John Mactaggart (1876)
"music to his kirns, a distance of thirty miles ; this was running the matter to a high pitch. ... used anciently, when " upstanding kirns" were fashionable. ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of by Montana Supreme Court, Supreme Court, Montana (1913)
"ant, without the consent or knowledge of kirns. Quinn told the defendant that kirns claimed the horses and asked him whether they belonged to ..."

4. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1893)
"Songs were given at intervals, and when daybreak appeared all parted, wishing to the master that he might live to see " mony mae sic merry kirns. ..."

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