† ˈkernaugh Obs. rare.
[a. Ir. ceitheirneach, ceatharnach: see kern n.1]
An Irish (or Highland) kern.
| 1535 St. Papers Hen. VIII, II. 242 He was inforced to leue horses, and goo to woodes, as a kernaugh. 1556 Act 3–4 Phil. & Mary in Bolton Stat. Irel. (1621) 255 No cottier nor labouring man in husbandry nor horseboy, nor kernaugh shall not buy any horse. 1822 D. Stewart Highlander's Scot. (1825) I. ii. 40 There was a peculiar class called Kearnachs... Some of these Kearnachs died in my remembrance. |