Plural of curn, which are seed pods or grain husks, or small rounded stones.
From Old English 'cyrn' meaning a granule or small hard object; the word survived in dialects referring to natural rounded objects found in nature.
The word 'curns' appears in old farming texts to describe what we'd now call chaff or grain debris, showing how specialized agricultural vocabulary from centuries ago has mostly disappeared from modern speech.
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