dial. corruptions of LEAN-TO.
1736. New Hampsh. Prov. Papers (1870), IV. 714. ’Tis judged the cause [of a fire] was from a spark falling out of the lintan chimney (which was lower than the house).
1861. Mrs. Stowe, Pearl of Orr’s Isl., 10. A brown house of the kind that the natives call ‘lean to’ or ‘linter.’
1893. Zincke, Wherstead, 261. A penthouse is a ‘linter’ (lean-to).
