Definitions for Kern

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Kern kern

Spelling: [kurn]

IPA: /kɜrn/

Kern is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 18 anagrams from letters in Kern (eknr).

Definitions for Kern

noun

1. a part of the face of a type projecting beyond the body or shank, as in certain italic letters.
2. the central area of any horizontal section of a wall, column, etc., within which the resultant forces of all compressive loads must pass if there is to be only compression at that point.
3. a band of lightly armed foot soldiers of ancient Ireland.
4. (in Ireland and the Scottish Highlands) a soldier.
5. an Irish peasant, especially a crude or boorish one.
6. Obsolete. a kernel, as of a nut; a grain, as of sand or wheat.
7. kirn2 .
8. Jerome (David) 1885–1945, U.S. composer.
9. a river in E California, in the Sierra Nevada, flowing S and SW to San Joaquin Valley. 155 miles (249 km) long.

verb (used with object)

1. to form or furnish with a kern, as a type or letter.
2. to remove a portion of space between (adjacent letters) in preparation for printing.
3. to cause to granulate, especially to granulate salt.
4. to cover with crystalline grains of salt; salt (meat).

verb (used without object)

1. (of a tree or plant) to produce or form kernels, hard grain, or seed.

verb (used with or without object), noun

1. churn.

Origin of Kern

1675-85; French carne corner of type ≪ Latin cardin- (stem of cardō) hinge

Examples for Kern

The enemy had not less than a dozen machine-guns in and in front of the kern Redoubt.

A squad of this force is then hurried forward to the kern house.

See Prof. kern's note on this passage in the various readings of his edition.

For half a century the kern apple had been Jan's meed on Christmas morning.

In the evening, Rohrer came up and remained with kern's mess.

"I got as far as the kern River, but they turned me back," he said between breaths as he drank.

Besides the kern Canyon there are two which must rank with Yosemite.

That was a whimsical exaggeration of what perhaps had a kern of truth in it.

And working with people like kern and Richardson…it was a matter of my liking their work, and their liking mine.

"Off Sadie Whirtle," said kern, rocking backward and forward in her chair.