Definitions
A Scottish word for a church.
Word origin
Inherited from Northern Middle English kyrke, possibly borrowed from Old Norse kirkja, or possibly from Old English ċiriċe. Doublet of church.
Used in a sentence
“The Ship was cheer'd, the Harbour clear'd— / Merrily did we drop / Below the Kirk, below the Hill, / Below the Light-house top.”
“When she sang in the kirk, folk have told me that they had a foretaste of the musick of the New Jerusalem, and when she came in by the village of Caulds old men stottered to their doors to look at her.”
“I suspect that members of the Church of Scotland who stop going, stop thinking of themselves as part of the Kirk much more readily.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Scottish church”4 letters
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