Definitions for pirns

pirns pirn

Spelling: [purn, pirn]
IPA: /pɜrn, pɪrn/

Pirns is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 53 anagrams from letters in pirns (inprs).

Definitions for pirns

noun

  1. a weaver's bobbin, spool, or reel.
  2. a fishing reel.

Origin of pirns

1400-50; late Middle English pyrne

Examples for pirns

So she spun at her yarn, and found more yarn on the “pirn” than she thought to find; which frightened her.

Fathom after fathom goes reeling from your pirn, but still you are barely able to drop the far fly into the distant curl.

Na, he juist said he'd forgotten a pirn, or his cruizey lamp, or ony thing.

The first thing he saw was a half-finished reel of cotton—a pirn, he called it.

"Ay, mony a pirn has 'Lisbeth filled to me," said Hendry, settling down to a reminiscence.

Word Value for pirns
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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