rin
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/ɹɪn/
Definition of rin
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(ambitransitive, dialectal)To run.
“"Besides," he continued, "I'm no sure that I'm right in rinning—rinning! I'm no rinning , I'm ganging; weel then I'm no sure that I'm right doing a witch's errand, whether rinning or ganging, sae I'se stand still and consider it.[…]."”
“O! gin I were where Gadie^([the name of a rivulet]) rins,”
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verb
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(ambitransitive, dialectal)To run.
“"Besides," he continued, "I'm no sure that I'm right in rinning—rinning! I'm no rinning , I'm ganging; weel then I'm no sure that I'm right doing a witch's errand, whether rinning or ganging, sae I'se stand still and consider it.[…]."”
“O! gin I were where Gadie^([the name of a rivulet]) rins,”
noun
- A coin worth ¹⁄₁₀₀₀ of a Japanese yen, no longer in circulation.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English rinnen, from Old English rinnan (“to run”), from Proto-Germanic *rinnaną (“to run”). More at run.
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