kerns

/K ER1 N Z/
noun
  1. 1

    A corn; grain; kernel.

  2. 2

    The last handful or sheaf reaped at the harvest.

  3. 3

    The harvest home.

noun
  1. 1

    Any part of a letter which extends into the space used by another letter.

verb
  1. 1

    (chiefly proportional font printing) To adjust the horizontal space between selected pairs of letters (characters or glyphs); to perform such adjustments to a portion of text, according to preset rules.

noun
  1. 1

    A light-armed foot soldier of the ancient militia of Ireland and Scotland; in archaic contexts often used as a term of contempt.

  2. 2

    A boor; a low person.

  3. 3

    An idler; a vagabond.

noun
  1. 1

    A churn.

noun
  1. 1

    A mill for grinding corn, especially a hand-mill made of two circular stones.

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