pirn

Na, he juist said he'd forgotten a pirn, or his cruizey lamp, or ony thing.

I shall have a fine ravelled pirn to unwind, and may end by disgracing both the lassie and myself.

Thou art under watch and ward down at the pirn-mill of Marnhoul!

Then were little children pirn-fillers, and such were taught to steal warily past the gate-keeper, concealing the bottle.

The first thing he saw was a half-finished reel of cotton—a pirn, he called it.