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sharn - What does it mean?

Definition of 'sharn'

English

Alternative forms

* (l), (l), (l)

Noun

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  • (chiefly|Scotland) The dung or manure of cattle.
  • *1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 19:
  • *:right between the byre and the stable and the barn on one side and the house on the other was the cattle-court and right in the middle of that the midden, high and yellow with dung and straw and sharn , and Mistress Strachan could never forgive Peesie's Knapp because of that awful smell it had.
  • Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)