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† ˈcow-sharn Obs. exc. dial.
Also 7 -shern, 7–9 -shorn, 9 -scairn, -shairn.
[f. cow n.1 + sharn: —OE. scearn dung.]
Cow-dung.
1622W. Burton Descr. Leic. (1777) 2 in Leicester Gloss., The want of wood and fuel for fire, for which the inhabitants are constrained..to make use of..straw, cow-shern, and such like. a1697Aubrey Wilts Royal Soc. MS. 168 (Halliw.) Hartflies..bred out of the dung of the deer, as beetles are out of cowshorne. 1808R. Anderson Cumberld. Ball. (1819) 63 Ann, git cow-scairn..Nowt meks a pultess better. 1884Cheshire Gloss., Cow-shorn or Cow-sharn, the leavings of the cow. Wilbraham's Gloss. 1820–6. |