EGAVE

kern

About 1.17 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A corn; grain; kernel.
  2. noun The last handful or sheaf reaped at the harvest.
  3. noun The harvest home.
  4. noun A doll or figurine raised in celebration of a successful harvest; kern-baby.
  5. noun Any part of a letter which extends into the space used by another letter.
  6. verb To adjust the horizontal space between selected pairs of letters (characters or glyphs); to perform such adjustments to a portion of text, according to preset rules.
  7. noun A light-armed foot soldier of the ancient militia of Ireland and Scotland; in archaic contexts often used as a term of contempt.
  8. noun A boor; a low person.

Similar words

core cairn cupid kieran foxworth kem kirn nucleus heart seed

Often followed by

county and river was had in et der to

Word family

Jerome David Kern Jerome Kern Kern kerne kerned kernes kerning kerns

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