Definition of "lin" in English

verb

1. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To desist, to stop, to cease.

   • Till all war deaun I knaw thou wad not lin.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of linn.

   • a roaring lin
   • Here the hammer's active din / Blends with sound of roaring lin.
   • Whan they came to the roaring lin, She drave unwitting Isabel in.
   • 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.
   • O ye were ne ' er the ane to fret, But kept my heart aboon, Wi ' smiles sweet as when first we met,

noun

1. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, especially in compounds) Alternative form of line (“flax, linen”).

   • a lin apron, lin-break, lin-brake, a lin cap, lin-clout, lin-garn/lin-yarn, lin-man, lin-weaver/lin-webster, lin-wheel
   • Paddeys wi' their feyne lin' ware.
   • Hoo wur stonnin' i' th' front of a weshin'-mug, wi' a lin brat afore her.