Now with their backs to the den's mouth they sit, / Yet shoulder not all light from the dern pit.
Source: wiktionary
Dern
//ˈdɜː(ɹ)n//
Synonyms for "dern" (20 found)
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Through dreary beds of tangled fern, / Through groves of nightshade dark and dern.
Source: wiktionary
He at length escaped them by derning himself in a fox-earth.
Source: wiktionary
But look how soon they heard of Holoferne / Their courage quail'd, and they began to derne.
Source: wiktionary
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