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blin - What does it mean?

Definition of 'blin'

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) blinnen, from (etyl) .

Verb

  • (obsolete) To cease from.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.v:
  • nathemore for that spectacle bad, / Did th'other two their cruell vengeaunce blin [...].
  • (archaic|or|dialectal) To stop, desist; to cease to move, run, flow, etc., let up.
  • * 1880 , Margaret Ann Courtney, English Dialect Society, Glossary of words in use in Cornwall :
  • A child may cry for half an hour, and never blin' ; it may rain all day, and never '''blin''' ; the train ran 100 miles, and never ' blinned .
  • * 1908 , John Masefield, A sailor's garland :
  • Thus blinned their boast, as we well ken

    Noun

  • (obsolete) cessation; end
  • Etymology 2

    (wikipedia) From (etyl) .
  • A blintz.
  • Anagrams

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    Similar to 'blin'

    blown, bleen, balun, blain, bilin, bln, boln, bolon