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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

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First published 1965 (SND Vol. VI).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1837-1838

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LILTIN PIN, n.comb. See quot. and cf. Dally, n.1Rxb. a.1838 Jam. MSS. XI. 108 s.v.:
A pin or small bit of wood, formerly used by the bandster, on the harvest-field, for pushing in the end of the straw-rope with which he binds up the sheaf.

[? From Lilt, v., 2. (3); more prob. a mistake for liftin-pin s.v. Lift, v., 6.]

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