Perne vs Pern - What's the difference?
perne | pern | Derived terms |
To spin or gyrate (as the pern of a spinning-wheel).
* 1928 , (William Butler Yeats), "(Sailing to Byzantium)", in The Tower :
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)
Perne is a derived term of pern.
As verbs the difference between perne and pern
is that perne is to spin or gyrate (as the pern of a spinning-wheel) while pern is to take profit of; to make profitable.As a noun pern is
part of a spinning wheel, a conical spool onto which the thread is wound from the spindle or pern can be a honey buzzard; pernis apivorus .perne
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Verb
(pern)pern
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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:
page 38:
- 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.