Lint Definition

lĭnt
noun
Scraped and softened linen formerly used as a dressing for wounds.
Webster's New World
Bits of thread, ravelings, or fluff from cloth or yarn, specif., such fluff caught by a removable screen in a clothes dryer.
Webster's New World
Cotton fiber used to make yarn.
Webster's New World
The waste cotton remaining after ginning.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
verb
To give off lint or fluff.
Webster's New World

Origin of Lint

  • Middle English variant of linet (from Old French linette grain of flax) (diminutive of lin flax) or from Medieval Latin linteum lint (from Latin linen cloth) both from Latin līnum flax lī̆no- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English linet, from Old French linette (“grain of flax"), diminutive of lin (“flax"); or, from Medieval Latin linteum, from Latin lÄ«num (“flax").

    From Wiktionary

Lint Sentence Examples

  • The separation of lint from seed is accomplished in various ways.

  • At no very remote date it was the practice in Scotland for every small farmer and cotter not only to grow " lint " or flax in small patches, but to have it retted, scutched, cleaned, spun, woven, bleached and finished entirely within the limits of his own premises, and all by members or dependents of the family.

  • In the Macarthy roller gin, the lint, drawn by a roller covered with leather (preferably walrus hide), is drawn between a metal plate called the " doctor " (fixed tangentially to the roller and very close to it) and a blade called the " beater " or knife, which rapidly moves up and down immediately behind, and parallel to, the fixed plate.

  • I dashed over, retrieving it from accumulated fuzz balls of dryer lint and used softener sheets.

  • He pulled out the engagement ring, along with a wad of lint.

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Words Starting With

LLILIN

Words Ending With

TNTINT

Unscrambles

lint

Words Starting With L and Ending With T

Starts With L & Ends With TStarts With LI & Ends With TStarts With L & Ends With NT

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4 Letter Words4 Letter Words Starting With L4 Letter Words Ending With T