Meanings
nounlimpin (plural limpins)
plural limpins
- dialectalobsoleteA limpet.
The Limpins, Muskles, and Scallops.
1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book I.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC
Origin
16th-century dialectal variant of limpet.
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