Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Scotch form of
iron .
Etymologies
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Examples
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C airn Energy to sell 40% stake in India arm to Vedanta
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An airn gate ca 'd "Bear", the tappin o' the couper,
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“Drive three inches of cauld airn into his brisket!” shouted a third.
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The third column, which was made up of the Atholl men, was commanded by My L [ord] N [airn].
The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.)
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And warm virgin tears that might melted cauld airn
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century
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Some folks is purtty hard put t 'airn a livin' now-a-days!
The Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm or, Queer Happenings While Taking Rural Plays
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Jem Darcy (the Lord have mercy on his sowl!) left me, must go to foreign countries to airn me bread, because I'm not good enough for his reverence.
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"Ter'ble thing, Trimmins, f'r a man ter be sep'rated from his fambly jest so's ter airn his livin '."
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Many bigger sums than that -- ay, hundreds and thousands of dollars had I played away -- but they had none of them cost me the hundredth or thousandth part of the trouble to get that these twenty dollars fifty had; two full months had I been slavin 'away in the woods and prairies to airn them, and I caught the fever there.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843
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Jeff, he's a master hand to thet kind o 'work, though yer mightn't think it;' n I kin airn right smart at weavin '; jest give me a good carpet-loom,' n I won't be beholden to nobody for vittles.
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