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linter

[ lin-ter ]

noun

  1. linters, short cotton fibers that stick to seeds after a first ginning.
  2. a machine for removing lint from cloth.


linter

/ ˈlɪntə /

noun

  1. a machine for stripping the short fibres of ginned cotton seeds
  2. plural the fibres so removed
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of linter1

An Americanism dating back to 1730–40; lint + -er 1
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Example Sentences

In those days he often wandered up and down the Linter and across the moor to the Linn, and so down to the lake.

But at this moment, though he remembered much that had passed between them, he was not even thinking of the Braes of Linter.

He went to the window, and raised it for a moment, that he might hear the well-remembered sound of the Fall of Linter.

Now the seed, free of all else, is carried by another elevator and endless screw conveyor to the "linter."

The low back part of the house was called the "lean-to" or linter.

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