thoornes

Yola

Alternative forms

• thorns, thurns

Etymology

From Middle English thorn, thurne, from Old English þorn, from Proto-West Germanic *þorn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θɔːnz/, /θuːnz/

Noun

thoornes

1. thorns
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Heigh thoornes.

     High thorns.

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 45