leglen

[ leg-lin ]

nounScot. and North England.
  1. a milk pail.

Origin of leglen

1
1715–25; perhaps <Scandinavian; compare Icelandic legillinn the keg, equivalent to legill keg (≪ Latin; see lagena) + -inn the

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