"tairn" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: tairns [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} tairn (plural tairns)
  1. (Northern England) Alternative form of tarn. Tags: Northern-England, alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: tarn
    Sense id: en-tairn-en-noun-R0MlGHH4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Northern England English

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1802 October 4, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Dejection: An Ode”, in The Morning Post; republished in Henry Nelson Coleridge, editor, The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, volume I (Juvenile Poems; Sibylline Leaves), London: William Pickering, 1834, →OCLC, stanza VII, page 239",
          "text": "Thou Wind, that ravest without, / Bare craig, or mountain-tairn, or blasted tree, / Or pine-grove whither woodman never clomb, / Or lonely house, long held the witches' home, / Methinks were fitter instruments for thee, / Mad Lutanist! [footnote: Tairn is a small lake, generally if not always applied to the lakes up in the mountains, and which are the feeders of those in the valleys.[…]]",
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