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Definition of Sorning
1. sorn [v] - See also: sorn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sorning
Literary usage of Sorning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Collection and Abridgement of Celebrated Criminal Trials in Scotland: From by Hugo Arnot (1812)
"It consisted of about forty per- * sorning was a very common crime in the-
uncivilized parts of the Highlands, and well known in our criminal law. ..."
2. The History of the Troubles and Memorable Transactions in Scotland, in the by John Spalding (1829)
"... horse, nolt, sheep, corns, and cattle, and left them nothing that they could
get within their bounds, syne fell in sorning throughout Murray, ..."
3. Scottish Gypsies Under the Stewarts by David MacRitchie (1894)
"The crime of " sorning," however, was so closely associated with the Gypsies ...
By sorning we understand the masterful taking of meat and drink without ..."
4. Scottish Gypsies Under the Stewarts by David MacRitchie (1894)
"The crime of " sorning," however, was so closely associated with the Gypsies ...
By sorning we understand the masterful taking of meat and drink without ..."
5. A history of the gipsies: with specimens of the gipsy language, ed., with by Walter Simson (1865)
"... when his crimes amounted only to " sorning, pickery, and little thieving, ...
joined with various acts of violence and sorning, to the number of three ..."
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