durns
English
Noun
durns
- plural of durn
Noun
durns
- Alternative form of dern (“a doorpost”).
- 1816, Richard Polwhele, The History of Cornwall, page 173:
- […] where the altar stood, with a moorstone door or durns on the south for entrance, and another door leading to the west, through which you are brought out into a little garden plot […]