Crossword-Solution: PIRNS 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

They are all gone now, the old allies and tutors in the angler's art--the kind gardener who baited our hooks; the good Scotch judge who gave us our first collection of flies; the friend who took us with him on his salmon- fishing expedition, and made men of us with real rods, and "pirns" of ancient make.

Sometimes, the threads grew so tangled, that I sighed with impatience and worry, the weft bears the marks in the weaving--they are plain, in unwinding the pirns--and still, 'twas a labor of love, this patchwork of sunlight and shadow, this discord of sorrow and song.

Long before they reached their teens they were earning their keep as herds in the surrounding glens or filling “pirns” for their parents; but they were generally on the brink of twenty before they thought seriously of matrimony.

Women left their spinning-wheels and pirns to follow them with their eyes along the Tenements, and the minister was known to be holding an extra service at the manse.

Long before they reached their teens they were earning their keep as herds in the surrounding glens or filling "pirns" for their parents; but they were generally on the brink of twenty before they thought seriously of matrimony.