Meanings
- pluralplural of durn
- alternativeAlternative form of dern (“a doorpost”).
[…] where the altar stood, with a moorstone door or durns on the south for entrance, and another door leading to the west, through which you are brought out into a little garden plot […]
1816, Richard Polwhele, The History of Cornwall, page 173
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