abbreviation
- lineal
- linear
lin.
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Verb
(third-person singular simple present lins, present participle linning, simple past linned or lan, past participle linned or lun)
Origin
From Middle English linnen, from Old English linnan (“to cease from, desist, lose, yield up"), from Proto-Germanic *linnanÄ… (“to turn, move aside, avoid"), from Proto-Indo-European *ley- (“to elude, avoid, shrink from"). Cognate with Danish linne (“to stop, rest"), Swedish dialectal linna (“to pause, rest"), Icelandic linna (“to stop, rest").
Noun
(plural lins)
- A pool or collection of water, particularly one above or below a waterfall.
- A waterfall, or cataract.
- a roaring lin
- A steep ravine.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
Origin
From Irish or Gaelic.
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