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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
larn .
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Examples
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Till he larns me that tune called "The Next Market Day."
Market Day elena maria vidal 2009
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She larns sewin 'and singin' and waitin 'on table and such like.
Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley Belle Kanaris Maniates
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Later I larns dat most o 'de reffes [2] is put in James City, nigh New
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"Pat," said his mother the next morning at breakfast, "what's that book you used to be studyin 'that larns you to talk roight?"
The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys Gulielma Zollinger
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An 'afther awhile th' Boy Demostheens larns that while he's polishin 'off his ipigrams, an' ol 'guy, that spinds all his time sleepin' on a bench, is polishin 'him off.
Mr. Dooley's Philosophy Finley Peter Dunne 1901
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Th 'raison is that in th' coorse iv his thrainin 'a lawyer larns enough about ivrything to make a good front on anny subject to annybody who doesn't know about it.
Observations By Mr. Dooley Finley Peter Dunne 1901
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Dogoned ef I wouldn't larn them jest one thing -- what them regler officers up to the Fort larns their dogs -- "to drap to shot," only in a different kind o 'way like; end, es fer their resarves, I say, give our farmers a chance -- let them locate!
Tecumseh : a Drama Charles Mair 1882
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You must know, Ruby, that we've got what they calls an hoccasional light-keeper ashore, who larns the work out 'ere in case any of us reg'lar keepers are took ill, so as' e can supply our place on short notice.
The Lighthouse 1859
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You must know, Ruby, that we've got what they calls an hoccasional light-keeper ashore, who larns the work out
The Lighthouse 1859
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I larns catechize every day, and you por trash don't.
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