Definition of "kirn" []

• See kern.
• Same as kern for churn.
• In mining, to bore with a hand-jumper or kirner.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "In some parts of Scotland, as well as in the north of England, the last handful of corn cut on the harvest-field was called the kirn, and the person who carried it off was said “to win the kirn."
• "In some parts of Scotland, as well as in the north of England, the last handful of corn cut on the harvest-field was called the kirn, and the person who carried it off was said "to win the kirn.""
• "At length the harvest was finished; or, as the phrase of the district was, clyack was gotten -- a phrase with the derivation, or even the exact meaning of which, I am unacquainted; knowing only that it implies something in close association with the feast of harvest-home, called the kirn in other parts of Scotland."