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quern
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Anglais
Étymologie
Nom commun
quern \kwɝn\
- Moulin à bras, pilon.
She is shaking in ingredients from various small bottles and querns produced from the pockets of her robes, and from the drawer in the wooden table.
— (Robert Nye, Merlin, 1978)Not surprisingly, different cultures discovered the suitability of various rock types for manufacturing querns and millstones.
Variantes
- kern, curn, quirn
Verbe
quern \Prononciation ?\ transitif
- (Très rare) Moudre.
For women he thought these should include combing, spinning, querning, leather and fur-working and be associated with finds of beads, bracelets and perforated teeth.
— (Tina Tuohy, Gender and Material Culture in Archaeological Perspective, 2000)
- (Très rare) (Sens figuré) Réduire en miettes.
- He could almost set aside the longing for Eyjan that ever querned within him—almost—in this place so utterly sundered from everything of hers. — (Poul Anderson, The Merman's Children, 1979)
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Prononciation
- Sud de l'Angleterre (Royaume-Uni) : écouter « quern [Prononciation ?] »
Références
- Cette page comporte des éléments adaptés ou copiés de l’article du Wiktionnaire en anglais, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 : quern (liste des auteurs et autrices).
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