toun
Britishnoun
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a town
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a farmstead
Example Sentences
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Our toun, yince sae cheerie, is dowie an' eerie; Our shippies hae left us, our trade is awa'; There's nae fair maids strayin', nae wee bairnies playin; Ye've muckle to answer for, Peter M'Craw!
From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Miller, Hugh
I saw it—the whole toun saw it—my poor daughter was a witness o' it; and yet ye have the impudence to stand there before me and say ye acknowledge it!
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 14 by Various
The morrow's morn' I'll early mak' me boun', To see what's deein' i' the borrow's toun.
From Legends of the North; The Guidman O' Inglismill and The Fairy Bride by Buchan, Patrick
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
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
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