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perne

verb

perne

verb

Etymology Nonce-derivation from pern by William Butler Yeats; see the 1928 quotation.

1

To spin or gyrate (as the pern of a spinning-wheel).

  • Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre1928, William Butler Yeats, “Sailing to Byzantium”, in The Tower:

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