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Scarn vs Sharn - What's the difference?

scarn | sharn |

As nouns the difference between scarn and sharn

is that scarn is (obsolete|uk|dialect) dung while sharn is (chiefly|scotland) the dung or manure of cattle.

scarn

English

Noun

(-)
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) dung
    • (Ray)

    Derived terms

    * scarn-bee (Webster 1913)

    sharn

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l), (l)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (chiefly, Scotland) The dung or manure of cattle.
  • *1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 19:
  • *:right between the byre and the stable and the barn on one side and the house on the other was the cattle-court and right in the middle of that the midden, high and yellow with dung and straw and sharn , and Mistress Strachan could never forgive Peesie's Knapp because of that awful smell it had.

    • Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)