Pern vs Wern - What's the difference?
pern | wern |
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 ,
* 1851 , Official catalogue of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 ,
* 1894 , The New Technical Educator: An Encyclopaedia of Technical Education , volume 3,
(Webster 1913)
(obsolete) To refuse.
As verbs the difference between pern and wern
is that pern is to take profit of; to make profitable while wern is to refuse.As a noun pern
is part of a spinning wheel, a conical spool onto which the thread is wound from the spindle.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)page 72:
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- Model of a patent machine for winding yarn from the hank, upon the shuttlecope or pern .
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).Etymology 3
See pernancy.References
wern
English
Verb
(en verb)- He is too great a niggard that will wern / A man to light a candle at his lantern. — Chaucer.