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ˈwood-kern, -kerne Hist.
Also 6 -karne, 7 -carne, -cerne.
[tr. Ir. ceithearnach coille (ceithearn kern n.1, coill wood).]
An Irish outlaw or robber haunting woods or wild country; such outlaws collectively.
Used by Holland to render L. latro.
1548State Papers Irel., Edw. VI, I. 84 (MS.) The kynd of peopull which we call outlawes & wodkerne. 1581J. Derricke (title) The Image of Irelande, with a Discoverie of Woodkarne, wherein is..expressed, the Nature..of the..Wilde Irishe Woodkarne, their notable aptnesse celeritie and pronesse to Rebellion. 1600Holland Livy xl. ix. 1065 The same is said unto me..which were more beseeming to speake unto a wood-kerne and robber by the high-way side. 1617Moryson Itin. ii. 101 Cormacke O Neale..was of a mild honest disposition..yet..little lesse barberous then the better sort of wood kern. 1632Lithgow Trav. v. 210 The Lawlesse Wood Carnes in Ireland. 1656in P. H. Hore Hist. Wexford (1911) VI. 516 Mount Leinster..which by reason of the great adjoining woods hath always beene haunted with Irish Toryes or Woodcernes. 1845Petrie Eccl. Archit. Irel. 96 At the close of the sixteenth century, these Towers became the receptacles of thieves and wood-kerne. |