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Webster 1913 Edition

Sorn

Sorn

,
Verb.
I.
[See
Sorehon
.]
To obtrude one’s self on another for bed and board.
[Scot.]
Sir W. Scott.

Webster 1828 Edition

Sorn

SOREHON

, SORN,
Noun.
A kind of servile tenure which subjected the tenant to maintain his chieftain gratuitously, whenever he wished to indulge himself in a debauch. So that when a person obtrudes himself on another for bed and board, he is said to sorn, or be a sorner.

Definition 2024

sòrn

sòrn

See also: sorn and SORN

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

sòrn m ‎(genitive singular sùirn, plural sùirn)

  1. snout
  2. flue of a kiln or oven
  3. concavity
  4. (Uist) kiln for drying corn
  5. disagreeable visage
  6. hearth
  7. fireplace of an oven or kiln

References

  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9
  • “sorn” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Etymology

From Old Irish sorn ‎(“furnace, oven, kiln”), from Latin furnus.

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