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Kerne vs Derne - What's the difference?

kerne | derne |

As a noun kerne

is .

As a verb derne is

(scotland) to hide; to skulk.

kerne

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1902, author=William MacLeod Raine, title=A Daughter of Raasay, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Donald no sooner beheld his kinswoman than he dropped on his knee and with the wildest demonstrations of joy kissed the hand of the ragged kerne who supported her. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1870, author=James Godkin, title=The Land-War In Ireland (1870), chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=April 11: The army advances again to Armagh, where it waits for galloglasse and kerne from the Pale. }}

    derne

    English

    Verb

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