Also 6 lyncolne, -cum, -kome, lincome, 8 linkome. [The name of an English city, the county town of Lincolnshire.]
1. Used attrib. or adj. in the following: † Lincoln farthing, a hearth-tax payable at Lincoln; Lincoln green, a bright green stuff made at Lincoln; † Lincoln say, a say or fine serge made at Lincoln; † Lincoln twine, (a) a twine or thread made at Lincoln; (b) a material woven from this.
1444. Bp. Alnwick’s Reg., in Wordsw., Lincoln Stat., II. (1897), 187. Commissio ad leuand’ le smoke ffardyngis alias dict *Lincoln farthinges.
c. 1510. Gest R. Hode, ccccxxii. in Child, Ballads, III. 77. Whan they were clothed in *Lyncolne grene, They keste away theyr graye.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., VI. ii. 5. All in a woodman’s jacket he was clad Of Lincolne green.
a. 1845. Hood, Forge, I. xiii. With little jackets … Of Lincoln green.
1310–1. Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees), 506. In xvij ulnis de *Lincolnesaye empt. pro Priore et sociis suis, xliijs. jd.
1566. in Hay Fleming, Mary Q. of Scots (1897), 506. Item of *lyncum tuyne to schew the Quens curges tua unce.
1724. Ramsay, Tea-t. Misc. (1733), II. 183. A sark made of the linkome twine.
† b. Short for Lincoln green.
a. 1568. Christis Kirke Gr., 14. Thair kirtillis wer of lynkome licht.
2. ellipt. as sb. in pl. A variety of sheep originally bred in Lincolnshire.
1837. Youatt, Sheep, viii. 332. The Lincolns were decidedly inferior—they were fen sheep.
1886. C. Scott, Sheep-Farming, 155. Lincolns made some good figures.
1897. Trans. Highl. & Agric. Soc., 61. The Teeswaters themselves were descended from the same stock as the Lincolns.
