linter

[ lin-ter ]

noun

1. linters, short cotton fibers that stick to seeds after a first ginning.
2. a machine for removing lint from cloth.

linter

/ ˈlɪntə /

noun

1. a machine for stripping the short fibres of ginned cotton seeds
2. plural the fibres so removed

Word History and Origins

Origin of linter¹

An Americanism dating back to 1730–40; lint + -er ¹

Example Sentences

In those days he often wandered up and down the Linter and across the moor to the Linn, and so down to the lake.

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But at this moment, though he remembered much that had passed between them, he was not even thinking of the Braes of Linter.

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He went to the window, and raised it for a moment, that he might hear the well-remembered sound of the Fall of Linter.

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Now the seed, free of all else, is carried by another elevator and endless screw conveyor to the "linter."

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The low back part of the house was called the "lean-to" or linter.

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