An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

Su. G. pin-a, coarctare.

Cromerty.

PINERIS, PYNORIS, s. pl. Pioneers.
Knox.

To PINGE.
V. [Peenge].

To PINGIL, PINGLE,
1. v. n. To strive, to labour assiduously without making much progress, S.
Douglas.
2. To vie with.
Douglas.
3. To toil for a scanty sustenance.
Dunbar.
4. v. a. To reduce to straits.
Douglas.

Su. G. pyng, labour, anxiety.

Pingil, Pingle, s.
1. A strife, S.
Ramsay.
2. Difficulty, S.
Journal Lond.
3. Hesitation.
Ramsay.

Pingling, s. Difficulty, S.
Pitscottie.

PINYIONE, s. A handful of armed men.
Acts Marie.

To PINK, v. n. To contract the eye, to glimmer, S.