Ure vs Yure - What's the difference?
ure | yure |
(obsolete, only in collocation in ure) .
* Chapman
(obsolete) To use; to exercise; to inure; to accustom by practice.
* {{quote-book, year=1891, author=Kate Sanborn, title=Adopting An Abandoned Farm, chapter=, edition=
, passage=I've heard of yure old lot. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1919, author=Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, title=Joy in the Morning, chapter=, edition=
, passage=But as soone as you can come to yure loving own girl--ROBINA." }}
(Yorkshire, Lancashire) hair
* {{quote-book, year=1862, author=Edwin Waugh, title=Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Aw know'd him when his yure stickt out at top ov his hat; and his shurt would ha' hanged eawt beheend, too,--like a Wigan lantron,--iv he'd had a shurt. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1898, author=John Hartley, title=Yorkshire Lyrics, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Her skin wor all a deep blue black, / Her yure , a dark braan red. }}
As nouns the difference between ure and yure
is that ure is use, practise, exercise while yure is hair.As a verb ure
is to use; to exercise; to inure; to accustom by practice.As a determiner yure is
eye dialect of lang=en.ure
English
Noun
(-)- Let us be sure of this, to put the best in ure / That lies in us.
Verb
(ur)- The French soldiers from their youth have been practiced and ured in feats of arms. — Sir T. More.
Anagrams
* ----yure
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