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Pirn, pirn, n. anything that revolves or twists: a reel, bobbin, &c.: the amount of thread wound on a shuttle or reel.

An industrious house too, wherein the birr of the wheel and the sneck of the reel had sounded: the pirn was half filled, and the wisp, from which the thread had been drawn, lay over the back of a chair, as it had been taken from the waist of the servant maid.

"Ay, and the thread still on the pirn."

"And you've forgotten the pirn scrape?"

Fathom after fathom goes reeling from your pirn, but still you are barely able to drop the far fly into the distant curl.