Definition of Airns

1. airn [n] - See also: airn

Lexicographical Neighbors of Airns

airmailed
airmailer
airmailing
airmails
airman
airmanship
airmanships
airmen
airmobile
airn
airned
airning
airns (current term)
airometer
airometers
airpark
airparks
airpath
airpipe
airpipes
airplane
airplane landing
airplane maneuver
airplane mechanics
airplane mode
airplane pilot
airplane propeller

Literary usage of Airns

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"airns, or Plough airns, sb. tho coulter, sock, &c. of a plough. Alwal. When an animal falls on its back, and cannot recover itself, it is said to have ..."

2. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1887)
"airns O' A ... airns. To AIRT, va and я. 1. To set or place in or towards a certain direction ; as, " Lay them open, an* etri them east an' west." 2. ..."

3. The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia by John Mactaggart (1876)
"What a consequence ploughmen assume sometimes when they meet at forges—giving directions to Vulcan how they want their airns set—how the couter must hang to ..."

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