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Pern - What does it mean?

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is likely misspelled.


has no English definition.

As a noun pern

is part of a spinning wheel, a conical spool onto which the thread is wound from the spindle.

As a verb pern

is to take profit of; to make profitable.

pern

English

Etymology 1

Presumably from a verb .Charles Moorman, ''The Works of the Gawain-Poet (1977), ISBN 978-1-60473-409-6, page 324. See also pirl.

Noun

(en noun)
  • part of a spinning wheel, a conical spool onto which the thread is wound from the spindle
  • * 1813 February 4, "Specification of the Patent granted to William Broughton for a Method of making a peculiar Species of Canvas", in The Repertory of Arts, Manufactures, and Agriculture , page 72:
  • * 1851 , Official catalogue of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 , page 38:
    • Model of a patent machine for winding yarn from the hank, upon the shuttlecope or pern .
  • * 1894 , The New Technical Educator: An Encyclopaedia of Technical Education , volume 3, page 234:
    • In one division the spindles carry the bobbins revolving inside a kind of cup or cone fitting down upon the pern , and the latter is shaped to fit accurately this conical surface.
    Derived terms
    * perne v.(?) (Yeats) * perning (Yeats)

    Etymology 2

    19th century, after the taxonomical name Pernis (Cuvier 1816).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A honey buzzard; Pernis apivorus .

    • Etymology 3

    See pernancy.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To take profit of; to make profitable.
    • (Sylvester)

    References

    (Webster 1913)

    Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.