Now dial. Also 5 lyn, 8 lin, 8–9 lynn, [Altered form of LIND sb., the vowel being shortened as is usual in the first element of a compound.] The linden or lime; also, the wood of this tree; attrib., in linn-bark, -board, -tree.
c. 1475. Cath. Angl., 217/2 (Addit. MS.). A Lyn tre, tilia.
1674. Grew, Veget. Trunks, vii. § 4. Some Woods are soft, but not fast; others are both, as Linn.
1796. in Morse, Amer. Geog., I. 577. The more useful trees are, maple,… lynn tree.
1796. Marshall, Yorksh. (ed. 2), II. 331. Lin; tilia europæa, the lime or linden tree.
1799. J. Smith, Acc. Remark. Occurr. (1870), 30. A cover was made of lynn bark which will run even in the winter season.
1808. Pike, Sources Mississ. (1810), I. App. 54. The banks of the Mississippi are still bordered by the pines of the different species, except a few small bottoms of elm, lynn and maple.
1812. Brackenridge, Views Louisiana (1814), 104. The timber is not such as is usually found in swamps, but fine oak, ash, olive, linn, beech, and poplar of enormous growth.
1833. Act 3 & 4 Will. IV., c. 56. Linn Boards, or White Boards for Shoemakers.
1847. Halliwell, Linn-tree, a lime-tree. Derb.
