toun

British  

/ tuːn /

noun

1. a town

2. a farmstead

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Example Sentences

He was a toun writer, an' had made a sort o' livin, afore he got the factorship, just as toun writers do in ordinar.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 by Various

"I wad gie my gude brown steed,5 And sae wad I my gude grey naigie, That I war fifty miles frae the toun, And nane wi' me but my bonnie Peggy."

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various

‘Out of Deuelin toun Þe folk wel fast ran, In a water to droun, So ferd were þai þan.’

From Torrent of Portyngale by Unknown

Wee Willie Winkie Rins through the toun, Up stairs an' doon stairs In his nicht-goun, Tirlin' at the window, Crying at the lock, 'Are the weans in their bed, For it's noo ten o'clock?'

From Health Five Lay Sermons to Working-People by Brown, John

A good man was ther of religioun, And was a povre Persoun of a toun; But riche he was of holy thoght and werk.

From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald