pern

plural perns

1. Part of a spinning wheel, a conical spool onto which the thread is wound from the spindle.

   Model of a patent machine for winding yarn from the hank, upon the shuttlecope or pern.

   1851, Official catalogue of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, page 38

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   […] these yarns are to be wove in the usual way of weaving canvas, but the weft to come off the pern or quill double […]

   1813 February 4, “Specification of the Patent granted to William Broughton […] for a Method of making a peculiar Species of Canvas”, in The Repertory of Arts, Manufactures, and Agriculture, page 72

   In one division the spindles carry the bobbins revolving inside a kind of cup or cone fitting down upon the pern, and the latter is shaped to fit accurately this conical surface.

   1894, The New Technical Educator: An Encyclopaedia of Technical Education, volume 3, page 234

plural perns

1. A honey buzzard; Pernis apivorus.

present singular third person perns · participle present perning · participle past perned · past perned

1. obsoletetransitiveTo take profit of; to make profitable.

   Those that, to ease their Purse, or please their Prince Pern their Profession

   1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, translated by Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC

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