Lind vs Lin - What's the difference?
lind | lin |
To desist (from something), stop.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.i:
To cease; leave off.
A pool or collection of water, particularly one above or below a waterfall.
A waterfall, or cataract.
A steep ravine.
(Webster 1913)
As a proper noun lind
is .As a noun lin is
flax or lin can be ling (fish).lin
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) linnen, from (etyl) .Verb
- Halfe furious vnto his foe he came, / Resolv'd in minde all suddenly to win, / Or soone to lose, before he once would lin [...].
Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
From Irish or Gaelic.Alternative forms
* linn * lynNoun
(en noun)- a roaring lin