Obs. Sc. Also calfing, colfin. [Jamieson suggested connection with F. calfater CALFRET.] The wadding or other stopping of a gun.
1676. W. Row, Contn. Blair’s Autobiog., xii. App. (1848), 587. Such other calfine as was at hand.
1722. in Wodrow, Sufferings Ch. Scot., II. App. 8. The burning Calfing was left on his Gown.
1736. Trial Capt. Porteous, 21 (Jam.). He was so near as to see … the colfin flee out of the pannel’s gun.
