', n.Yks.', w.Yks.', Wil.' See Cow-shard.
', n.Yks.', w.Yks.', Wil.' See Cow-shard.
Joseph Wright, English Dialect Dictionary (1898–1905)
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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Also written scharn Chs.'°^; and in forms shaarn Sh.L ; shairin Sc. Nhb.'; shairn Sc. (Jam.) Cum.'*; shan w.Yks. ; sharan Nhb.' ; sharen N.Cy.' Nhb.' ; sharon Sc. ; shearn Sc. (Jam.); shern Sc. ; shorn Ken.' Sus.'^ Dev.; shurne Wil.' [Jarn, Jan.] 1. sb. Cow-dung. Cf. cow-sharn, scam.
(UK, Northern England) A cowshed.
(India) stable or shed (for horses, cows, etc.).
(chiefly, Scotland) The dung or manure of cattle or sheep.
thinking of my clockwork dead girl and her misadventures in the slightly less doomed lightning shard
Also in form queed Wil.1 w.Som.1 [kwid, kwid.] 1. sb. The cud. See Cud, si.1, Keed.