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Etymology
From Middle English thorn, thurne, from Old English þorn, from Proto-West Germanic *þorn.
Pronunciation
Noun
thoornes
- 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