lin
see also: Lin
Pronunciation
Lin
Proper noun
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see also: Lin
Pronunciation
- IPA: /lɪn/
lin (lins, present participle linning; past linned, past participle linned)
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To desist, to stop to cease.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.i:
- Halfe furious vnto his foe he came, / Resolv'd in minde all suddenly to win, / Or soone to lose, before he once would lin [...].
- 1684, Meriton, Praise Ale, 1.46 (quoted in the EDD):
- Till all war deaun I knaw thou wad not lin.
- 1822, James Hogg, The Three Perils of Man, I. 238:
- He never linned till he had taen away every chicken that the wife had.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.i:
- IPA: /lɪn/
lin (plural lins)
- Alternative spelling of linn
- a roaring lin
- circa 1735-1801 John Millar, poem, published in 1979, William Christian Lehmann, John Millar of Glasgow, 1735-1801, page 414:
- Here the hammer's active din / Blends with sound of roaring lin.
- 1776, David Herd, George Paton, Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, Etc, page 20, "Binnorie":
- Whan they came to the roaring lin, She drave unwitting Isabel in.
- 1827, Jane Porter, The Scottish Chiefs, page 51:
- A step farther might be on the firm earth; but more probably it would be illusive, and dash him into the roaring Lin, where he would be ingulfed at once in its furious whirlpool.
- 1861, Alexander McLachlan, The Emigrant: And Other Poems, page 201:
- O ye were ne ' er the ane to fret,
- But kept my heart aboon,
- Wi ' smiles sweet as when first we met,
- By Locher ' s roaring lin.
- IPA: /lɪn/, /laɪn/
lin (plural lins)
- (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, especially, in compounds) altform en
- a lin apron, lin-break, lin-brake, a lin cap, lin-clout, lin-garn/lin-yarn, lin-man, lin-weaver/lin-webster, lin-wheel
- 1775, John Watson, The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Halifax, page 16:
- […] to Sowerby-bridge, about twenty-four measured miles, wheel carriages would go in one day; and on that account they concluded that the manufacture of that place, Warrington, &c. would be much readier and cheaper supplied with lin-yarn, flax, &c. from the east, […]
- 1641.—14 yards of femble cloth, 12s. ; 8 yards of linen, 6s. 8d. ; 20 yards of harden, 10s. ; 5 linen sheets, 1l. ; 7 linen pillow bears, 8s. ; 2 femble sheets and a line hard sheet, 10s. ; 3 linen towels, 4s. ; 6 lin curtains and a vallance, 12s. ; […]
- 1864, Preston, Poems, 8:
- A yerd a gooid lin check.
- 1866, Gilpin, Songs, 233:
- Paddeys wi' their feyne lin' ware.
- 1874 (ed. of 1879), Waugh, Chim. Corner, 27:
- Hoo wur stonnin' i' th' front of a weshin'-mug, wi' a lin brat afore her.
Lin
Proper noun
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