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Saun vs Sarn - What's the difference?

saun | sarn |

As nouns the difference between saun and sarn

is that saun is a male elephant not part of a herd; a rogue while sarn is (uk|dialect) a pavement or stepping stone.

saun

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A male elephant not part of a herd; a rogue.
  • * 1810 , Decoy Elephants Catching a Male'', in Enos Bronson (editor), ''Select Reviews of Literature, and Spirit of Foreign Magazines , Volume 3, page 123,
    • Though on some occasions the mahouts accompany the koomkies'' up to the ''saun''''', yet it is safer, and generally the most sure and easy mode, for them to dismount in some contiguous cover with their blankets and ropes, leading the ''koomkies'' to the '''''saun , towards which they proceed in the most cunning style.
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    sarn

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, dialect) A pavement or stepping stone.
    • (Johnson)
    (Webster 1913)