† moor burnern.
Scottish. Obsolete. rare.
A person who sets fire to heather, wild grass, etc., on a moor. Cf. moorburn n.
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c1430 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1844) I. 342 All..mur burnaris in forbodin tyme.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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n.c1430- be trimmed by the stern
- be trimmed so much by the head
- be trimmed so much by the stern
- be tripping
- be true to oneself
- be turned in on oneself
- be twitched with
- be unable etc to wait
- be unable to fight one's way out of a paper bag
- be unable to pour etc out of a boot
- be unable to pour piss out of a boot
- be unable to pour water out of a boot
- be unable to punch one's way out of a paper bag
- be unable to run a whelk stall
- be unable to wait
- be under a misapprehension
- be under embargo
- be under the flypaper
- be under the mark
- be under the saw of contention
- be unpacked
- be up a grub
- be up a gum tree
- be up and down like a bride's nightie
- be up down one's street