keir

plural keirs

1. alternativeAlternative form of kier.

   Also fine clothes require longer treatment in the keir in order to secure good penetration by the chemie.

   1919, Society of Dyers and Colourists, Journal of the Society of Dyers and Colourists, volume 35, page 35

   2 more examples

   The keirs, becks, washing machines, etc., are placed sufficiently low to allow of being fed from the water supply by gravitation, and the outlets placed just sufficiently high to reach the water line of the river a little above its normal flow.

   1902, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, Sessional Papers, Volume 34, Part 2, page 7

   The cloth was singed to remove superfluous fluff by being passed over heated copper plates and then boiled in bleaching keirs with lime or caustic soda.

   1975, Owen Ashmore, The Industrial Archaeology of Stockport, page 31

plural Keirs

1. A surname.
2. A male given name.

   A British teenager who killed three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance event was jailed for at least 52 years on Thursday, for an attack Prime Minister Keir Starmer called one of the most harrowing moments in Britain’s history.

   2025 January 23, Reuters, “UK teenager jailed for minimum of 52 years for Southport girls’ murders”, in CNN