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shairn

shairn is the alternative form of sharn.

Meaning of sharn

Noun

sharn (uncountable)

  1. (Scotland) The dung or manure of cattle or sheep.
    • right between the byre and the stable and the barn on one side and the house on the other was the cattle-court and right in the middle of that the midden, high and yellow with dung and straw and sharn, and Mistress Strachan could never forgive Peesie's Knapp because of that awful smell it had.1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 19

Questions about shairn

What is shairn the alternative form of?
Shairn is the alternative form of sharn.

Words near shairn in the dictionary

  1. Shain
  2. Shains
  3. Shainyan
  4. Shaiqiya
  5. shairl
  6. shairn
  7. Shairp
  8. shaitan
  9. shaitans
  10. Shaiva
  11. Shaivas

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