An archaic or dialectal word for yarn; twisted fiber used in weaving or knitting.
From Old English gearn, cognate with Old Norse garn and German Garn. The word is ancient and appears across Germanic languages.
Garn is still used in Scandinavian languages for yarn, which shows how English and Nordic languages shared a common ancestor—sometimes old English words survive better in other languages than in modern English.
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