noun
- scraped and softened linen formerly used as a dressing for wounds
- cotton fiber used to make yarn
- the waste cotton remaining after ginning
- bits of thread, ravelings, or fluff from cloth or yarn
- this fluff caught by a removable screen in a clothes dryer
Origin:
ME linnet, prob. < lin, linen: see line
intransitive verb
to give off lint or fluff