pirn
/pəːn/Now Scottish and English regional
noun
1A bobbin, spool, or reel; specifically (in early use) a small cylinder on which thread, etc., is bound, usually made from a hollow reed or quill; (in later use) a wood, metal, or (occasionally) paper spool designed to hold the weft yarn in the shuttle; a weaver's bobbin. Also: a bobbin or reel with yarn wound on it; a reel of thread or cotton.
2Any device or object which resembles a reel or is used for winding; especially a fishing reel.
Origin
Late Middle English; earliest use found in Promptorium Parvulorum. Origin uncertain. Perhaps imitative.
- read up on something (or read something up)
- readvance
- readvancement
- re-advertise
- re-advertisement
- readvise
- read-write
- ready
- -ready
- ready cash
- ready-made
- ready-making
- ready meal
- ready-mix
- ready-mixed
- ready money
- ready-moneyed
- ready reckoner
- ready roll
- ready room
- ready-sensitized
- ready, steady, go (also ready, set, go)
- ready-to-wear
- ready-up
- ready-witted