English Explanatory Dictionary

perne

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To spin or gyrate (as the pern of a spinning-wheel).

Word forms

perne pernes perning perned

Etymology

Nonce-derivation from pern by William Butler Yeats; see the 1928 quotation.

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