Etymology

kier

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Today it means: A bleaching vat. Full definition →

Old Norse ker
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  1. Old Norse · borrowed fromker
  2. English todaykier

Borrowed from Old Norse ker (whence also Icelandic ker (“tub”)).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.