Definitions for kirns

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Spelling: [kurn; Scot. kirn]
IPA: /kɜrn; Scot. kɪrn/

Kirns is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in kirns (iknrs).

Definitions for kirns

noun

  1. a churn.
  2. a harvest celebration; a feast or party celebrating a successful harvest.
  3. the harvesting of the last handful of corn, noting either the end of the harvest season or the winning of a race against other reapers. Compare kemp1 (def 2).

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to churn.

Origin of kirns

1300-50; Middle English kirne (noun) Scandinavian; compare Old Norse kirnuaskr a churn; cognate with churn

Examples for kirns

Nor was the good old custom of the kirn omitted at Abbotsford.

kirn is a graduate of Princeton University and attended Oxford on a scholarship from the Keasby Foundation.

Learn the cat the road to the kirn, and she'll aye be lickin'.

No man can seek his marrow in the kirn, so weil as he that hes bin in it himself.

There was the kirn, which, in its present denuded state, told an ugly tale.

kirn is a graduate of Princeton University and attended Oxford University on a scholarship from the Keasbey Foundation.

In Lost in the Meritocracy, kirn charts how the economics of privilege taunt him at every turn in Princeton.

She had just filled her kirn, and there was still some cream standing in the bottom of her cream jar.

kirn is a graduate of Princeton University and attended Oxford on a scholarship from the Keasbey Foundation.

Havin gone into the room where the kirn was, he lifted the large stone by which the lid was kept down, and placed it on the floor.

Word Value for kirns
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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