Lin

a roaring lin

And therefore, to recount her Rivers, from their Lins (marginal gloss) Meeres or Pooles, from whence Rivers spring

Here the hammer's active din / Blends with sound of roaring lin.

Whan they came to the roaring lin, She drave unwitting Isabel in.

What seek we here / Amid this waste where desolation scowls, / And the red torrent, brawling down the linn, / Sings everlasting discord?

A step farther might be on the firm earth; but more probably it would be illusive, and dash him into the roaring Lin, where he would be ingulfed at once in its furious whirlpool.

O ye were ne ' er the ane to fret, But kept my heart aboon, Wi ' smiles sweet as when first we met,

a lin apron, lin-break, lin-brake, a lin cap, lin-clout, lin-garn/lin-yarn, lin-man, lin-weaver/lin-webster, lin-wheel

[…] to Sowerby-bridge, about twenty-four measured miles, wheel carriages would go in one day; and on that account they concluded that the manufacture of that place, Warrington, &c. would be much readier and cheaper supplied with lin-yarn, flax, &c. from the east, […] 1641.—14 yards of femble cloth, 12s. ; 8 yards of linen, 6s. 8d. ; 20 yards of harden, 10s. ; 5 linen sheets, 1l. ; 7 linen pillow bears, 8s. ; 2 femble sheets and a line hard sheet, 10s. ; 3 linen towels, 4s. ; 6 lin curtains and a vallance, 12s. ; […]

A yerd a gooid lin check.

Paddeys wi' their feyne lin' ware.

Hoo wur stonnin' i' th' front of a weshin'-mug, wi' a lin brat afore her.

Inspired by the communique of the Second Plenary Session of the Ninth CCP Central Committee and in order to greet the convening of the first provincial congress of activists in the creative study and application of Mao Tsetung Thought, the Chinchung Special District Revolutionary Committee recently held a discussion meeting on the study of Mao Tsetung Thought for leading cadres at and above standing committee level of the revolutionary committees of the special district and of the counties and all big factories and mines in the special district.[…] Study courses in the Thought of Mao Tsetung have been conducted by many leading cadres in the special district, including (Liu Kuo-yao), chairman of the Fenyang County Revolutionary Committee and a PLA representative; (Chao Hsiao-yuan), chairman of the Lin County Revolutionary Committee and a PLA representative; and (Kuo Li-chen), chairman of the Pingting County Revolutionary Committee and a PLA representative.

Together with his friend Tang Min, chief economist of the Asian Development Bank, Mao established a micro-credit scheme in Lin County of north China’s Shanxi province eight years ago.

As mines increasingly became privatized, the profits no longer necessarily came to the villages and a major dispute was triggered in Lin County (Shanxi) in 2008 partly because the population felt they had received no benefits from the local mines (Nanfang dushi bao 22 October 2009).

Li Caidong, 68, who has lived in a cave his entire life in Lin county, stands outside his cave, at sunset in Lin county, Shanxi province, China March 14, 2018.[…] The relocations are voluntary, say residents of Lin county, but Guo sees no reason to abandon her cave house.[…] “Our work has been proceeding smoothly,” Liu Yongfu, an official handling poverty alleviation and development efforts, told a news conference in Beijing in March. “The common folk are very supportive.” But authorities in Lin county declined to comment on their relocation plans when contacted by Reuters.