MARTIN
Mar"tin, n. (Stone Working) Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.]
Defn: A perforated stone-faced runner for grinding.
MARTIN
Mar"tin, n. Etym: [F. martin, from the proper name Martin. Cf.
Martlet.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: One of several species of swallows, usually having the tail less deeply forked than the tail of the common swallows. [Written also marten.]
Note: The American purple martin, or bee martin (Progne subis, or purpurea), and the European house, or window, martin (Hirundo, or Chelidon, urbica), are the best known species. Bank martin. (a) The bank swallow. See under Bank. (b) The fairy martin. See under Fairy. — Bee martin. (a) The purple martin. (b) The kingbird. — Sand martin, the bank swallow.
MARTINET
Mar"ti*net`, n. Etym: [So called from an officer of that name in the
French army under Louis XIV. Cf. Martin the bird, Martlet.]
Defn: In military language, a strict disciplinarian; in general, one who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods. [Hence, the word is commonly employed in a depreciatory sense.]
MARTINET
Mar"ti*net`, n. Etym: [F.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: The martin.
MARTINETA
Mar`ti*ne"ta, n. Etym: [Cf. Sp. martinete.] (Zoöl.)