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curn

curn is the alternative form of quern.

Meaning of quern

Noun

quern (plural querns)

  1. A mill for grinding corn, especially a handmill made of two circular stones.
    • She is shaking in ingredients from various small bottles and querns produced from the pockets of her robes, and from the drawer in the wooden table.1978, Robert Nye, Merlin

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Forms of curn

pluralcurns

Questions about curn

What is curn the alternative form of?
Curn is the alternative form of quern.

Words near curn in the dictionary

  1. curmur
  2. curmurred
  3. curmurring
  4. curmurrings
  5. curmurs
  6. curn
  7. Curneen
  8. Curneens
  9. Curnow
  10. Curnows
  11. curns

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Adapted from Wiktionary: curn (page history and authors); quern (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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