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"word": "line"
}
],
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Irish English",
"Northern England English",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"Scottish English"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "a lin apron, lin-break, lin-brake, a lin cap, lin-clout, lin-garn/lin-yarn, lin-man, lin-weaver/lin-webster, lin-wheel"
},
{
"ref": "1775, John Watson, The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Halifax, page 16",
"text": "[…] 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, […]\n1641.—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. ; […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1864, Poems, Preston, section 8",
"text": "A yerd a gooid lin check.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1866, Gilpin, Songs, 233",
"text": "Paddeys wi' their feyne lin' ware."
},
{
"ref": "1874 (ed. of 1879), Waugh, Chim. Corner, 27",
"text": "Hoo wur stonnin' i' th' front of a weshin'-mug, wi' a lin brat afore her."
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of line (“flax, linen”)"
],
"links": [
[
"line",
"line#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, especially in compounds) Alternative form of line (“flax, linen”)"
],
"tags": [
"Ireland",
"Northern-England",
"Scotland",
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"especially",
"in-compounds"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/lɪn/"
},
{
"ipa": "/laɪn/"
}
],
"word": "lin"
}
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