What is "yarned"

Usage examples of "yarned".

Stencil yarned far into the night but with a voice always threatening to break, as if now at last he were pleading for his life.

Of a night we yarned around the fire or belly-ached about somebody's cooking.

The Traveller yarned of many places and deeds, and Rachyl just asked questions and, as the youngest there, allowed herself at times an air of mildly smug tolerance as her elders rambled on.

As for the rest, however…they invited me to dinner, we drank and yarned, we shared songs beneath that unutterably starry sky, several times we rode forth to see a spectacular canyon or simply for the joy of riding….