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ayr
/ɛɚ/
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What does ayr mean?
noun
- father
- Alternative spelling of air (especially when referring to the form of music).
proper noun
- A town in South Ayrshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS3321).
More meanings (6)
proper noun
- A river in East Ayrshire council area and South Ayrshire council area, Scotland, which runs into the Firth of Clyde at the town.
- A town in the Shire of Burdekin, Queensland, Australia.
- A village and township in Adams County, Nebraska, United States.
- A minor city in Cass County, North Dakota, United States.
- A township in Fulton County, Pennsylvania, United States.
- A community in North Dumfries township, Waterloo Regional County Municipality, Ontario, Canada.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɛɚ/
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When Murdock afterwards set up a school at Ayr, Burns, who was then fifteen, went to board with him.
Bruce, still successful, however, drove the Earl of Pembroke and the Earl of Gloucester into the Castle of Ayr and laid siege to it.
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The rich and fertile county of Ayr, which now glories in the name of "the garden of Scotland," was for the most part a wild and dreary waste, with here and there a poor, miserable, comfortless hut, where the farmer and his family lodged.
The tune had enticed her into it; being a tune of a busy, vaulting, leaping sort—some low notes on the silver string of each fiddle, then a skipping on the small, like running up and down ladders—“Miss M’Leod of Ayr” was its name, so Mr. Farfrae had said, and that it was very popular in his own country.
But that Coyne, which is not considerable for the Matter, but for the Stamp of the place, being unable to endure change of ayr, hath its effect at home only; where also it is subject to the change of Laws, and thereby to have the value diminished, to the prejudice many times of those that have it.