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linget

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Searchable Lemmata: linget (OScots), linget (MdE).
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    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Raw Material; the seed of flax; linseed.(circa 1477 - circa 1800)
1. Thre peckis of lynget. Accounts. [DOST Aberd. B. Rec. (I. 408) 1477]
2. For linget is to lytill birdis fude. Poetic. [DOST Henr. Fab. (1795) ante 1500]
c.f.: linseed
OScots.
Sex: N/A    Ceremonial: No
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    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, from Middle French linget(te), diminutive of linge 'linen' (see line 1). The French word is not attested for Anglo-French, nor does it appear to have been borrowed into Middle English, unless the word lint (q.v.), earlier linet is in fact a borrowing of it.
WF: Borrowed into the British Isles
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