airn

airn (third-person singular simple present airns, present participle airning, simple past and past participle airned or airnt)

1. (UK, dialect) To earn.

• airnings

• ern

From Middle English iren, from Old English īsern, from Proto-West Germanic *īsarn.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛrn/

airn (plural airns)

1. iron

airn (third-person singular simple present airns, present participle airnin, simple past airned, past participle airned)

1. to smooth or dress with an iron

• “airn, n & v.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.