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Peine vs Perne - What's the difference?

peine | perne |

As a noun peine

is pain or punishment.

As a verb perne is

to spin or gyrate (as the pern of a spinning-wheel).

peine

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (legal) Pain or punishment.

    • Usage notes

    This is only used in common law legal contexts, as part of (Law French), most often in the phrase .

    Derived terms

    * peine forte et dure English words not following the I before E except after C rule ----

    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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