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yarn

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Searchable Lemmata: gearn (OE), garn (ME), yarne (ME), zearn (AF), yarn, garn (ON).
Alternate Forms: ga, gar, gari, garne, gary, jarne, yarne, yern, yerne, yeren, 3arn, 3arne, 3ern, 3erne.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Raw Material; woollen or spun thread; a quantity of yarn or thread; a continuous strand made from filaments of fibreby spinning; may be single or plied. The form ga-, gar-, gari- appears in compounds (garwyndylle/garywyndyl/3arnwyndyl, gawyndel [1440]; 3arnwyndyll/Garwyndelle [?c1475]; garnwyndilblades [a1500].(circa 900 still in current use)
1. filaratum, gearn. Gloss. [DMLBS GlH (F 304) 900/999]
2. ij. vessels ... chargez de frument, mesryn, zearn et d'autres diverses marchandises [AND ROUGH (140) circa 1353/1380]
3. [129] ... Johanni Couper: a docer & a new bancqwer & ij Cochyns ... [130] ... ij stane of prus garne & a stane of twyne ... Item, Johannæ de Carlton ... half a pes of lawmpas ... a volet of lawmpas neu ... Margeretæ ... do et lego a ... volette of crysp; ... a crisp volet ... Lego Willielmo, filio meo ... unam zonam de corio, cum uno powche Wills. [MED Will York in Sur.Soc.4 (129-130) 1389/1390]
4. Noon of the said craft shal make no capez of webb garn nother blew ne meld nor noon other collour ... noon of the said craft make no capez nother of meld woll nor meld garn Legal. (dating uncertain) [MED Mem.Bk.York in Sur.Soc.120 (78) circa 1440]
5. Garne siue 3arn: pensum Gloss. [n/a REMOVE ((Add 15562) 53b) circa 1475]
c.f.: pensum
AF, ME, MdE, OE.
Sex: N/A    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, OE gearn, -gern; ON.
WF:
Etym Cog: garn (ON_).
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