Definitions for lint

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IPA: /lɪnt/

Lint is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 28 anagrams from letters in lint (ilnt).

Definitions for lint

noun

  1. minute shreds or ravelings of yarn; bits of thread.
  2. staple cotton fiber used to make yarn.
  3. cotton waste produced by the ginning process.
  4. a soft material for dressing wounds, procured by scraping or otherwise treating linen cloth.

Origin of lint

1325-75; Middle English, variant of linnet; compare Middle French linette linseed, Old English līnet- flax (or flax-field) in līnetwige lintwhite

Examples for lint

A cloth should never be used, for it leaves some lint behind; but take off the dust with a painter's brush, or a pair of bellows.

“There is the lint,” said aunt Mary, and she gave Clara a bag to put it in.

He also describes a machine for separating the seed from the fibre or lint.

"I really don't see how I can be of any help," Anders said, brushing a bit of lint from his jacket.

It's the lint, the sticking-plaster and the bandages, and the turn-an'-twist.'

He had brought an instrument case, some linen bands and some lint.

A very small proportion by weight of the plant is taken by the lint.

It is more hardy, and yields a greater proportion of lint to the seed.

Makeup is reapplied, lint rollers are re-rolled, and string is cut from the inside of a sock.

lint is the name given to the cotton which remains when separated from the seeds.

Word Value for lint
Scrable

4

Words with friends

6

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