bourn
See also: Bourn
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
bourn (plural bourns)
- Alternative form of bourne (“small stream or brook”)
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 10:
- My little boat can safely passe this perilous bourne.
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
bourn (plural bourns)
- Alternative form of bourne (“destination; limit”)