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▪ I. † pirn, n.1 Obs. rare—1.
[perh. metathesis of prin, prene, preen, a pin.]
? A pointed twig or branch; ? a thorn or spine.
a1400–50Alexander 4981 Þai fande a ferly faire tre quare-on na frute groued, Was void of all hire verdure & vacant of leues,..With-outen bark ouþir bast full of bare pirnes.
▪ II. pirn, n.2 Now Sc. and dial.
(pɜːn, Sc. pɪrn)
Forms: 5–6 pirne, pyrne, 8 pyrn, 6– pirn, (9 dial. pirm); pern, perne.
[Origin uncertain.
Jamieson points out that in sense 1 ‘it is sometimes called a broach’ (cf. broach n.1 4), and may thus be, like pirn n.1, a metathetic form of prin, preen; but the latter has existed in Sc. since 14th c. as prene, prein, preen, and there is no evidence of any contact or confusion between the two words.]
1. a. A small cylinder on which thread or yarn is wound, formerly made of a hollow reed or quill, but now usually of turned wood or iron, with an axial bore for mounting on a spindle when winding; a weaver's bobbin, spool, or reel. Also fig.
(Cf. the synonym spool, the orig. sense of which appears to have been quill or hollow reed.)
c1440Promp. Parv. 402/1 Pyrne, of a webstarys loome, panus [an error reproduced by Palsgrave]. 1474Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 25 Item viij pirnis of gold for the sammyn harnessing, price of the pirne xs.; summa iiij li. 1502Ibid. II. 289 Item..for xv pirn of gold. 1700Sir A. Balfour Lett. 210 In the Highest Storie there are Innumerable Pirns of Silk. 1792Statist. Acc. Scot. II. 510 Fit..to earn their bread at home, the women by spinning, and the men by filling pirns, (rolling up yarn upon lake reeds, cut in small pieces for the shuttle). 1829E. Irving Times of Martyrs in Anniversary 283 Her spinning wheel..having no heck, but a moveable eye which was carried along the pirn by a heart-motion. 1831W. Patrick Plants 82 The stalks [of Arundo Phragmites] were formerly used for making weaver's pirns. 1844G. Dodd Textile Manuf. vii. 217. 1899 Crockett Kit Kennedy 175 A load of birchwood to be transformed into bobbins and pirns. 1919W. B. Yeats Wild Swans at Coole 36 He unpacks the loaded pern Of all 'twas pain or joy to learn. 1950T. R. Henn Lonely Tower 185 Within the cones moves the ‘perne’, a spool which unwinds the thread spirally as the sphere moves onward.
b. Phrases. (Sc.)
to wind any one a pirn, to plan trouble for or injury to one, get one into difficulty; to wind (oneself) a bonny (queer) pirn, to get into a difficulty or entanglement; an ill-favoured (-winded) pirn, a troublesome or complicated business; to ravel one's pirns, to cause one trouble or anxiety: to redd (unwind) a ravelled pirn, to clear up a tangled matter or difficulty, to get clear of an entanglement; to wind (up) one's pirn, to make an end, have done.
1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (Rolls) I. 201 Throw sic displesour he hes wynd him ane pirne. 1638in Lang Hist. Scot. (1904) III. ii. 48 [Argyll is said to have advised Charles to keep him [Lorne] in England or else he would wind him a pirn]. 1718Ramsay Christ's Kirk Gr. iii. xv, Ise wind ye a pirn, To reel some day. 17..Sc. Haggis 161 (E.D.D.) I'll just wind up my pirn, and hae done with a remark or sae. 1787Shirrefs Jamie & Bess ii. ii, Ere ye get loose, ye'll redd a ravell'd pirn. 1818Scott Rob Roy xxiii, Ye'll spin and wind yoursell a bonny pirn. 1828― F.M. Perth xxv, By the Thane's Cross, man{ddd}this is an ill favoured pirn to wind. 1893Stevenson Catriona xxiii. 282, I shall have a fine ravelled pirn to unwind.
c. A reel of sewing cotton, a bobbin or spool. (A common name in Sc.)
1820[Known to be in use in Hawick]. 1887D. Grant Scotch Stories 64 Gin a customer ca'd for a penny pirn.
†2. transf. The yarn wound upon the pirn (ready for the shuttle); also, as much as a pirn holds, a pirnful. ? Obs. rare.
[Cf.1474,1502in 1.] 1710Ruddiman Gloss. Douglas' æneis s.v. Pyrnit, The Women and Weavers [of Scotland] call a small parcel of yarn put on a broach (as they name it), or as much as is put into the shuttle at once, a Pyrn, but most commonly the stick on which it is put passes under that name. 1842Francis Dict. Arts, Pirn, the wound yarn that is on a weaver's shuttle.
3. Any device or machine resembling a reel, or used for winding; esp. a fishing-reel.
1782Sir J. Sinclair Observ. Sc. Dial. 159 A pirn (for angling), a wheel. 1793Fordyce in Phil. Trans. LXXXIV. 17 The curvature of the wire, acquired by its being wound round a pirn, was not entirely unfolded for some months. 1833J. S. Sands Poems Ser. i. 78 (E.D.D.) Auld Jacob's staff and fishing pirn. 1839T. C. Hofland Brit. Angler's Man. i. (1841) 6 A winch or reel, is used for running-tackle, and is generally made of brass, but I have seen them in Scotland made of wood, where they are called pirns. c1850W. Graham in R. Ford Harp Perth. (1893) 149, I wauken'd bricht, To my pirn wildly skirlin'. 1900C. Murray Hamewith 3 Hear the whirr o' the miller's pirn. 1903Westm. Gaz. 8 Apr. 2/2 A primitive contrivance of a hand-wheel, three pirns—a man, a woman, and two boys twisting green rushes into ropes.
†4. An unevenness or ‘cockle’ in the surface of a piece of cloth, caused by difference in the yarns composing it. Obs. rare.[‘They still say in Angus, that a web is all pirned, when woven with unequal yarn’ (Jamieson).] 1733P. Lindsay Interest Scot. 166 We should have no more bad Cloth, nor any Cloth disliklied by Bars, Strips, or Pirns, occasioned by putting different Kinds of Yarn..in the same piece.
5. attrib. and Comb., as pirn-winder, pirn-winding; pirn-cage (see quot.); pirn-cap, a wooden bowl used by weavers to hold their quills (Jamieson); pirn-girnel, a box for holding pirns while they are being filled; pirn-house, a weaving shed; pirn-mill, a mill where weaver's bobbins are manufactured; pirn-stick, a wooden spit or spindle on which the quill (pirn) is placed while the yarn put on it in spinning is reeled off; pirn-wheel, a wheel for winding thread on bobbins; pirn-wife, a woman who fills pirns with yarn.
1880Antrim & Down Gloss., *Pirn cage, an arrangement of pins standing up from a square frame, in which ‘pirns’ or bobbins are stuck—used in power-loom factories.
1867Ellen Johnston Poems 129 Nae mair in oor *pirn-house Ye'll hunt the rats, nor catch a moose.
1915W. B. Yeats Reveries 13 Another day a sea captain pointed to the smoke from the *Pern mill on the quays. 1938in Sc. Nat. Dict. (1968) VII. 140/1 The Pirners' Bridge, so-called either because bobbin-makers crossed it to get birch-timber in the adjacent copse to make their pirns, or because a pirn-mill once stood near it.
1894[W. D. Latto] Tam Bodkin xxi. 216 My legs..they're like *pirn-sticks buskit in breeks.
1896G. Setoun R. Urquhart xxii. 226 Women discussed it at their *pirn-wheels.
1895A. Philip Parish of Longforgan x. 276 A good canny *pirn-winder... Her average wage from *pirn-winding was not more than two shillings a week. 1901Westm. Gaz. 8 Feb. 2/1 ‘Pirn-winding’, an accessory trade to hand-loom weaving, will, no doubt, die with the present workers.
▪ III. pirn, n.3 dial.
Also purn.
A twitch for horses, etc.: see quots.
1846Brockett N.C. Gloss., Purn, the same as Twitch... Twitch, an instrument applied to the nose of a vicious horse, to make it stand still during..shoeing. 1869Lonsdale Gloss., Pirn, a stick with a loop of cord for twisting on the nose of a refractory horse. Pirns, a kind of ring for a vicious cow's nose. 1873Swaledale Gloss., Pirn, a stick with a noose at the end to hold an unruly horse.
▪ IV. pirn, v. Sc.|pɜːn|
[app. f. pirn n.2]
Found only in pa. pple. and ppl. adj. pirned, interwoven with threads of different colours; striped; brocaded.
1494Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 224 Crammacy sattin pirnit wyth gold. 1513Douglas æneis iii. vii. 26 Riche wedis, Figurit and prynnit [ed. 1553 pyrnyt] al with goldin thredis. Ibid. viii. iii. 168 Ane..knychtly weyd, Pirnit and wovin full of fyn gold threyd. 1539Inv. R. Wardr. (1815) 33 Ane gowne of crammasy velvot..lynit with pyrnit satyne. 1710Ruddiman Gloss. Douglas' æneis, Pyrnit, striped, woven with different colours. 1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 22 He..Tucks up his pyrnit tunic bra. |