Obs. rare. [Of obscure origin; perh. an error for grine GRIN sb.1 1.] In Hawking: (see quots.).
1486. Bk. St. Albans, a ij b. Who so will take hawkes he must haue nettis wich ben kalled vrines and tho must be made of good small threde.
[1621. Markham, Hunger’s Prevent., xii. 150. You shall take a paire of those Nettes which Faulkoners commonly doe call Vrines or Vrnes.]
