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Derne vs Perne - What's the difference?

derne | perne |

As verbs the difference between derne and perne

is that derne is (scotland) to hide; to skulk while perne is to spin or gyrate (as the pern of a spinning-wheel).

derne

English

Verb

  • (Scotland) To hide; to skulk.
  • * Hugh Miller
    • He at length escaped them by derning himself in a fox-earth.
    (Webster 1913)

    perne

    English

    Verb

    (pern)
  • To spin or gyrate (as the pern of a spinning-wheel).
  • * 1928 , (William Butler Yeats), "(Sailing to Byzantium)", in The Tower :
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