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pern

/pɜː(ɹ)n/

pern noun: part of a spinning wheel, a conical spool onto which the thread is wound from the spindle.

Noun (1)

pern (plural perns)

  1. Part of a spinning wheel, a conical spool onto which the thread is wound from the spindle.
    • […] these yarns are to be wove in the usual way of weaving canvas, but the weft to come off the pern or quill double […]1813 February 4, “Specification of the Patent granted to William Broughton […] for a Method of making a peculiar Species of Canvas”, in The Repertory of Arts, Manufactures, and Agriculture, page 72
    • Model of a patent machine for winding yarn from the hank, upon the shuttlecope or pern.1851, Official catalogue of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, page 38

Noun (2)

pern (plural perns)

  1. A honey buzzard; Pernis apivorus.

Verb

pern (third-person singular simple present perns, present participle perning, simple past and past participle perned)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To take profit of; to make profitable.
    • Those that, to ease their Purse, or please their Prince Pern their Profession1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, translated by Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson...

Proper noun capitalized: PERN

PERN

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pern meaning in Tamil

pern in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும் பறவைகளில், இது ஒரு சிறப்பு இனமாகும்

Forms of pern

Noun
pluralperns
Verb
third-person singular presentperns
present participleperning
past participleperned
pastperned

Origin of pern

Presumably from a verb pern, a variant of preen, from Middle English prene; pernyng is read by some editors in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (v. 611) and interpreted as the present participle of this verb, also reflected dialectally as pirn (“reel; bobbin”). See also pirl.

19th century, after the taxonomical name Pernis (Cuvier 1816).

See pernancy.

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Questions about pern

What does pern mean?
Pern means part of a spinning wheel, a conical spool onto which the thread is wound from the spindle.
What is pern in Tamil?
Pern in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும் பறவைகளில், இது ஒரு சிறப்பு இனமாகும். See Pern meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pern?
Pern can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce pern?
Pern is pronounced /pɜː(ɹ)n/.
What is the plural of pern?
The plural of pern is perns.

Words near pern in the dictionary

  1. permutors
  2. permutotetravirus
  3. permutotetraviruses
  4. Permyak
  5. permyriad
  6. pern
  7. Perna
  8. pernach
  9. pernachs
  10. Pernambucan
  11. Pernambucans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pern (page history and authors); PERN (page history and authors); pern (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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