Definitions for quern

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Spelling: [kwurn]
IPA: /kwɜrn/

Quern is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in quern (enqru).

Definitions for quern

noun

  1. a primitive, hand-operated mill for grinding grain.

Origin of quern

before 950; Middle English; Old English cweorn; akin to Old Norse kvern hand-mill

Examples for quern

He who presented this quern to Frothi was called Hengikioptr (hanging-chops).

But angels used to grind at the quern for Ciaran's sake on the day that was his.

He had only to speak the word, and the quern ground out what he wanted.

There stood his sisters by the quern, For the high-noon cakes they needs must earn.

This was their rule, that every bishop19 should grind at the quern on his day.

That quern turned out anything that the grinder chose, though formerly it had ground nothing but peace and gold.

In the Norse story of Frodi's quern, the myth assumes a whimsical shape.

"It is the women singing and grinding at the quern," she said, and her feet went faster.

In 1901 Dr. Munro wrote, “even the keepers of the watch-tower at the ford of Dumbuck had their quern, and ground their own corn.”

He asked him for heaven's sake to take back the quern, and that at once.

Word Value for quern
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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