kirns

The dance in Scotland called "Bab at the Bowster" is always the winding up at "kirns" and other merrymakings, and is most likely similar to the cushion-dance.

Notes and Queries, Number 76, April 12, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various 1852

A check of Strip place names as well as a more exhaustive search run farther afield had found no urb, no street, no development named Friendship within a couple of hundred kirns.

The Mocking Program Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

Traffic was noticeably busier on the far side of the industrial zone, facing theintracoastal waterway and the subsidiary port of Laguna Vista some fifteen kirns across the bay, than it had been in the tourist belt.

The Mocking Program Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

The huntresses among them carried standards surmounted by the skulls of meth and artfs, and the tails of kirns.

Doomstalker Cook, Glen 1985

I'll kirn your kirns [29] for you, goodwives, and I'll bake your bread on

Tales From Scottish Ballads Elizabeth Wilson Grierson 1908

At kirns and weddings we'se be there, [harvest-homes, we shall]

Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

They get the jovial rantin 'kirns, [harvest-homes]

Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

Besides, you're a sailor - man, an 'even in Galloway they do not have kirns till the corn's ripe, "replied Ralph with a smile.

The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887

There's such a thing as makin 'a god of this here transient evil world, as I said to Bridget when the potatoes went bad just because I got no time to' pit 'them, having had to play the fiddle at four kirns' [2] in different parishes during potato-lifting week! "

The Dew of Their Youth 1887

Flies o'er th 1 unbending corn, and (kirns along the main,

The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical 1779