Sc. and north. dial. [f. *lin (see LINCH sb.1) + NAIL. Cf. Ger. dial. lonnagel.] = LINCH-PIN.
1496. Ld. Treas. Acc. Scot., I. 293. Item, for fyfty iij chenȝeis, to the lynnalis of the cartis and the erleddir pynnys … ixs.
1562. Wills & Inv. N. C. (Surtees, 1835), 207. One wayne wth yron bound wheilles, axill nailles, lyn nalles.
1855. Robinson, Whitby Gloss.
