kerne

noun Archaic.

1. a band of lightly armed foot soldiers of ancient Ireland.
2. (in Ireland and the Scottish Highlands) a soldier.
3. an Irish peasant, especially a crude or boorish one.

noun

1. the part of the character on a piece of printer’s type that projects beyond the body

verb

2. (tr) to furnish (a typeface) with a kern

noun

1. a lightly armed foot soldier in medieval Ireland or Scotland
2. a troop of such soldiers
3. archaic a loutish peasant

noun

1. engineering the central area of a wall, column, etc, through which all compressive forces pass

noun

1. Jerome (David). 1885–1945, US composer of musical comedies, esp Show Boat (1927)

n.

1680s, “part of a metal type projecting beyond the body,” as the head of an -f- or the tail of a -j-, from French carne “projecting angle, quill of a pen,” from Latin cardinem “hinge.”