See sharn on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 19:",
"text": "right between the byre and the stable and the barn on one side and the house on the other was the cattle-court and right in the middle of that the midden, high and yellow with dung and straw and sharn, and Mistress Strachan could never forgive Peesie's Knapp because of that awful smell it had.",
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"The dung or manure of cattle or sheep."
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{
"word": "shearn"
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"word": "shern"
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"word": "scarn"
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{
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