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perne

perne verb: to spin or gyrate (as the pern of a spinning-wheel).

Verb

perne (third-person singular simple present pernes, present participle perning, simple past and past participle perned)

  1. To spin or gyrate (as the pern of a spinning-wheel).
    • Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre1928, William Butler Yeats, “Sailing to Byzantium”, in The Tower

Forms of perne

third-person singular presentpernes
present participleperning
past participleperned
pastperned

Origin of perne

Nonce-derivation from pern by William Butler Yeats; see the 1928 quotation.

Questions about perne

What does perne mean?
Perne means to spin or gyrate (as the pern of a spinning-wheel).
What part of speech is perne?
Perne is a verb.
What is the past tense of perne?
The past tense of perne is perned.

Words near perne in the dictionary

  1. pernambuco
  2. pernambucone
  3. pernancies
  4. pernancy
  5. Pernas
  6. perne
  7. Perneau
  8. perned
  9. Pernell
  10. Pernells
  11. Pernice

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