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kerr

/kɛɹ/

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What does kerr mean?

proper noun

  1. A surname.
  2. A township in Champaign County, Illinois, United States.
  3. A census-designated place in Lake County, Montana, United States.
More meanings (1)

proper noun

  1. An unincorporated community in Gallia County, Ohio, United States.

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IPA pronunciation

/kɛɹ/

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I took Rickenson, Kerr, Wordie, and Hudson as a breakdown gang to pioneer a path among the pressure-ridges.
Ernest Henry, Sir ShackletonSouth: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917Project Gutenberg ebook #5199
I bore despatches to Miles and to her, To warn them against the bands of Kerr.
Adam Lindsay GordonPoems by Adam Lindsay GordonProject Gutenberg ebook #258
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She was taken to London and tried at the Old Bailey before Mr. Commissioner Kerr, but acquitted on the ground of her having acted under the compulsion of her husband.
H. B. (Henry Brodribb) IrvingA Book of Remarkable CriminalsProject Gutenberg ebook #446
W. Sampson, Leon C. Field, F. R. Lees, Norman Kerr, Canon Farrar, Canon Wilberforce, Dawson Burns, Wm.
John EllisPersonal Experience of a PhysicianProject Gutenberg ebook #6481
We are indebted to Mr. Kerr for calling our attention to a passage in Buckland's "Bridgewater Treatise" (Volume II., page 20, note), where bony armour is ascribed to Megatherium.); in confirmation of this in the same formation I found a large surface of the osseous polygonal plates, which "late observations" (what are they?) show belong to the Megatherium.
Charles DarwinMore Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished LettersProject Gutenberg ebook #2739