n.
- short, fine fibres which separate from cloth or yarn during processing.
▸Scottish flax fibres prepared for spinning.
▸the fibrous material of a cotton boll.
- a fabric with a raised nap on one side, used for dressing wounds.
Derivative
Etymology
ME lynnet ‘flax prepared for spinning’, perh. from OFr. linette ‘linseed’, from lin ‘flax’.