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From Srednji Engleski yarne, ȝern, yarn, from the Stari Engleski ġearn (“yarn, spun wool”), from Pra-Germanski *garną (“yarn”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰorn-, *ǵʰer- (“tharm, guts, intestines”). Akin to West Frisian jern, Holandski garen (“yarn”), Nemački Garn (“yarn”), Danski garn, Švedski garn (“yarn, thread”), Icelandic garn (“yarn”), Latinski hernia (“rupture”), Antički Grčki χορδή (khordḗ, “string”), Sanskrt हिर (hira, “band”). Compare also the obsolete doublet garn.
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: yân, MFA(ključ): /jɑːn/
- (US) enPR: yârn, MFA(ključ): /jɑɹn/
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yarn (countable and uncountable, plural yarns)
- (uncountable) A twisted strand of fiber used for knitting or weaving.
- (nautical) Bundles of fibers twisted together, and which in turn are twisted in bundles to form strands, which in their turn are twisted or plaited to form rope.
- (countable) A story, a tale, especially one that is incredible.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 4, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.
Synonyms
fiber strand for knitting or weaving
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nautical
story
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yarn (third-person singular simple present yarns, present participle yarning, simple past and past participle yarned)
- To tell a story or stories.
- 1935, Christopher Isherwood, Mr Norris Changes Trains (U.S. title: The Last of Mr Norris), Chapter Thirteen, in The Berlin Stories, New York: New Directions, 1963, p. 152,[1]
- “Well, well!” exclaimed Mr. van Hoorn. “Here are the boys! As hungry as hunters, I’ll be bound! And we two old fogies have been wasting the whole afternoon yarning away indoors. My goodness, is it as late as that? I say, I want my tea!”
- 1942, Neville Shute, Pied Piper, New York: William Morrow & Co., Chapter 7,[2]
- They had stayed in some little pension and had gone for little, bored walks while the colonel went out in the boats with the fisherman, or sat yarning with them in the café.
- 1935, Christopher Isherwood, Mr Norris Changes Trains (U.S. title: The Last of Mr Norris), Chapter Thirteen, in The Berlin Stories, New York: New Directions, 1963, p. 152,[1]
To tell a story
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Anagrams
Middle English
yarn
- Alternative form of yarne