Burn
,a stream. A variant of bourn (Anglo-Saxon, burne, a brook, as in Winterbourne, Burnham, Swinburn, etc.).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.