rin
A coin worth ¹⁄₁₀₀₀ of a Japanese yen, no longer in circulation.
Noun
- A coin worth ¹⁄₁₀₀₀ of a Japanese yen, no longer in circulation.
Origin
Borrowed from Japanese 厘(りん) (rin).
Forms
Verb
- To run.
- "Besides," he continued, "I'm no sure that I'm right in rinning—rinning! I'm no rinning , I'm ganging; weel then I'm no sure that I'm right doing a witch's errand, whether rinning or ganging, sae I'se stand still and...
- O! gin I were where Gadie^([the name of a rivulet]) rins, - a. 1846, John Imlah, “Where Gadie rins”, in James Grant Wilson, editor, The Poets and Poetry of Scotland, Volume II, Harper & Brothers, published 1876, page...
- 1879, I. T. Tregellas [John Tabois Tregellas], Peeps Into the Haunts and Homes of the Rural Population of Cornwall, Netherton & Worth (Truro), Houlston & Sons (London), page 3, I had a servant who had lived all his...
Origin
From Middle English rinnen, from Old English rinnan (“to run”), from Proto-Germanic *rinnaną (“to run”). More at run.