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third-person singular simple present larns, present participle larnin, simple past and past participle larned or larnt
(Northern England, especially Geordie) To learn. examples
(Northern England, especially Geordie, Appalachia, near archaic) To teach. quotations
A bump of the boot to the seat, Tom thought, would be the way to larn him.
1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring