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mourne

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English

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Etymology 1

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See morne.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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mourne (plural mournes)

  1. The armed or feruled end of a staff.
  2. The end of a sheephook to which the hook is attached.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for mourne”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Etymology 2

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Verb

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mourne (third-person singular simple present mournes, present participle mourning, simple past and past participle mourned or mourn'd)

  1. Obsolete spelling of mourn.

Anagrams

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