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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Variant of kern1.
Examples
“The English then strode forward, and drew their bowstrings — not to the breast, as your Highland kerne do, but to the ear — and sent off their volleys of swallow tails before we could call on St. Andrew.”
“I should waste little sorrow on the wild kerne who lie piled on it like carrion.”
“Beside them, secured by a cord which a pikeman has fastened to his own wrist, trots a bare-legged Irish kerne, whose only clothing is his ragged yellow mantle, and the unkempt”
“Donald no sooner beheld his kinswoman than he dropped on his knee and with the wildest demonstrations of joy kissed the hand of the ragged kerne who supported her.”
“I asked the news, the rug-headed kerne shot me with the dismal tidings that Malcolm Macleod and Creagh, rowing to Skyes for a conference with”
“What the deuce do you mean by discussing such a matter with a Highland kerne?”
“Eh! and that kerne [260] of Bethlehem, he shall be dead,”
"Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays
“A kerne was caught carrying a bundle of withies on the outskirts of the English camp.”
“The soldiers who accomplished the bloody work were commanded by Captain Francis Crosby, to whom the chief command of all the kerne in the Queen's pay was committed.”
“On the miserable kerne fell the death-strokes stiff and stern,”
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