kern

/kɜːn/ · noun

Meaning

A corn; grain; kernel.
The last handful or sheaf reaped at the harvest.
The harvest home.
Any part of a letter which extends into the space used by another letter.
(chiefly proportional font printing) To adjust the horizontal space between selected pairs of letters (characters or glyphs); to perform such adjustments to a portion of text, according to preset rules.
A light-armed foot soldier of the ancient militia of Ireland and Scotland; in archaic contexts often used as a term of contempt.
A boor; a low person.
An idler; a vagabond.
A mill for grinding corn, especially a hand-mill made of two circular stones.
A churn.

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