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单词 linget
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lingetn.1

Forms: In full linget-seed. Also 1500s lingeat, 1700s linjet.
Etymology: An unexplained variant of linnet, earlier form of lint n.1
Scottish. Obsolete.
The seed of ‘lint’ or flax, linseed. oly(e lingeat: linseed oil.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > yielding fibre, thatching, or basket material > [noun] > flax plants > seed or seed-vessel
linseedc1000
hoppec1325
flax-hoppe14..
linget1477
line-boll1483
line1540
flaxseed1562
1477 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 408 Thre peckis of lynget, and thre pekkis of hemp sede.
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Preaching of Swallow l. 1803 in Poems (1981) 70 Ȝone lint heirefter will do gude, For linget is to lytill birdis fude.
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Preaching of Swallow l. 1744 in Poems (1981) 68 Se ȝe ȝon churll,..Fast sawand hemp—lo se!—and linget seid?
1501 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1900) II. 25 Item, for iiij pointis olye lingeat xijs.
1505–6 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1901) III. 184 Item, for ane quart oly lingeat viijs.
1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 152 Linget seed.
1655 in Rec. Convent. Royal Burghs (1878) III. 420 Repairing thither with ane bagg of linget.
1794 W. Anderson Piper of Peebles 6 An' nane but hamit linjet sawn,—Fan lint was beaten wi' the mell.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

lingetn.2

Forms: Also 1500s lingette.
Etymology: Of obscure origin: Halliwell gives linget as a Somerset variant of linnet, but cites no authority.
Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
Some small bird; perhaps = ling-bird n. at ling n.2 Compounds 2.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Motacillidae > genus Anthus > anthus pratensis (titlark)
titlingc1550
linget1552
lark1602
chit1610
meadowlark1611
cucknel1655
titlark1666
cheeper1684
moss-cheeper1684
old-field lark1805
ling-bird1814
tit-pipit1817
meadow pipit1825
meadow titling1828
furze-lark1854
peep1859
1552 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Atricapilla,..a byrde with blacke fethers on the crowne of his head, muche like our linget [1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus, Like a lingette or titlynge].
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Fauvette, a yellowish bird somewhat lesse then the Nightingale, whereunto she resembles both in singing and shape; some call her, a Linget.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Linger or Linget, a kind of Bird.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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