Definitions for linters

linters lint·er

Spelling: [lin-ter]
IPA: /ˈlɪn tər/

Linters is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 257 anagrams from letters in linters (eilnrst).

Definitions for linters

noun

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

Origin of linters

An Americanism dating back to 1730-40; lint + -er1

Examples for linters

Mr. Peakslow was ahead of the boys; and they thought he must have reached the linter.

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

He was laird of Linn and laird of linter, as his people used to say.

We all thought you was under the linter; and they was all workin' so hard—as if they had been our best friends—to get you out.

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

"I am going on towards linter forest to meet Blane," said Mr. Kennedy.

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

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

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

Under the logs was the crushed shell of the linter; and all looked anxiously, to see what was under that.

Word Value for linters
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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