Pern
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /pɜː(ɹ)n/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pern is a noun meaning Part of a spinning wheel, a conical spool onto which the thread is wound from the spindle.
Meaning
Part of a spinning wheel, a conical spool onto which the thread is wound from the spindle.
More Meanings
- A honey buzzard; Pernis apivorus.
- (obsolete, transitive) To take profit of; to make profitable.
Example Sentences
Those that, to ease their Purse, or please their Prince Pern their Profession
Model of a patent machine for winding yarn from the hank, upon the shuttlecope or pern.
[…] these yarns are to be wove in the usual way of weaving canvas, but the weft to come off the pern or quill double […]
In one division the spindles carry the bobbins revolving inside a kind of cup or cone fitting down upon the pern, and the latter is shaped to fit accurately this conical surface.
Word Forms
- perns
- perning
- perned
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pirn, spindle, spinning wheel, spindel, spole, winder.
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