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Kenned vs Kerned - What's the difference?

kenned | kerned |

As verbs the difference between kenned and kerned

is that kenned is (ken) while kerned is (kern).

As an adjective kerned is

having part of the face projecting beyond the body or shank; -- said of type.

kenned

English

Verb

(head)
  • (ken)

    • ken

    English

    Etymology 1

    Northern and Scottish dialects from (etyl) . The noun meaning “range of sight” is a nautical abbreviation of present participle kenning.

    Noun

    (-)
  • Knowledge or perception.
  • Range of sight.
    • Usage notes
    In common usage a (fossil word), found only in the phrase .
    Coordinate terms
    * (nautical range of sight) (l)
    Quotations
    * (English Citations of "ken")

    Verb

  • To know, perceive or understand.
  • To discover by sight; to catch sight of; to descry.
  • * 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
    • I proposed to the Mariners, that it would be of great benefit in Navigation to make use of [the telescope] upon the round-top of a ship, to discover and kenne Vessels afar off.
  • * Addison
    • We ken them from afar.''
  • * Shakespeare
    • 'Tis he. I ken the manner of his gait.
    Quotations
    * (English Citations of "ken")
    Derived terms
    * beken * foreken * kenned * kenning * misken * underken * unkenned
    References
    * * * * *

    Etymology 2

    Perhaps from kennel.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang, UK, obsolete) A house, especially a den of thieves.
    • English irregular verbs ----

    kerned

    English

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Having part of the face projecting beyond the body or shank; -- said of type.

    • Etymology 2

    See (kern) (verb)

    Verb

    (head)
  • (kern)