Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Scotch form of
iron .
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Examples
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C airn Energy to sell 40% stake in India arm to Vedanta
Morning News Roundup Deals India Staff 2011
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An airn gate ca 'd "Bear", the tappin o' the couper,
Lady Traquair's Brew 2006
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“Drive three inches of cauld airn into his brisket!” shouted a third.
Rob Roy 2005
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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.) James Pringle Thomson
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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 Various
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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 Laura Lee Hope
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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.
My New Curate P.A. Sheehan
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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 '."
How Janice Day Won Helen Beecher Long
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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 Various
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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.
Ramona 1921
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