Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
A cone-shaped spool or bobbin on which thread or yarn is wound, used most often for weaving. · The amount of thread wound on a shuttle or reel. · A trouble or difficulty deliberately created.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo wind (yarn) onto a pirn, usually by means of a pirn winder.
Perhaps from prin (“twig, shoot”), variant of prene (“spike, nail”), from Old English preon, from Proto-Germanic *preunaz (“knitting needle”).
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