Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Scotch form of
tarn .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
tarn .
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- noun Alternative form of
tarn .
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Examples
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They had spent the few first weeks of marriage among the pleasant lakes and hills of Westmoreland and Cumberland, wandering together, in delightful interchange of thought, from glen to glen, from tairn to tairn, all about Ambleside, Helvellyn, and Lodore, Ullswater,
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849
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Get the tango on its native tairn '-- or words to that effect. "
Emma McChesney and Co. Edna Ferber 1926
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