lint

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noun
  1. minute shreds or ravelings of yarn; bits of thread.

  2. staple cotton fiber used to make yarn.

  1. cotton waste produced by the ginning process.

  2. a soft material for dressing wounds, procured by scraping or otherwise treating linen cloth.

Origin of lint

1
1325–75; Middle English, variant of linnet; compare Middle French linette linseed, Old English līnet- flax (or flax-field) in līnetwigelintwhite

Other words from lint

  • lintless, adjective
  • de·lint, verb (used with object)

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How to use lint in a sentence

  • It includes the great family of the lints and flaxes, and fulfils thus the three offices of giving food, raiment, and rest.

  • These fish were all of the kind called here Lints, a long slender fish 427 now in shoals of millions.

  • If a proper liniment is procured and lints sprinkled with it wrapped round the joints, the pain will be wonderfully relieved.

    Papers on Health | John Kirk

British Dictionary definitions for lint

lint

/ (lɪnt) /


noun
  1. an absorbent cotton or linen fabric with the nap raised on one side, used to dress wounds, etc

  2. shreds of fibre, yarn, etc

  1. mainly US staple fibre for making cotton yarn

Origin of lint

1
C14: probably from Latin linteus made of linen, from līnum flax

Derived forms of lint

  • linty, adjective

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