A small stream especially intermittent in its flow – (compare ‘burn’); a limit or boundary; goal or destination.
‘It arrives from somewhere beyond the known bourne of our experience.’
Source: Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, xii
Bourn(e)
A small stream especially intermittent in its flow – (compare ‘burn’); a limit or boundary; goal or destination.
‘It arrives from somewhere beyond the known bourne of our experience.’
Source: Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, xii
