LING. A brushwood useful in breaming. Also, a fish, the Lota molva; it invariably inhabits the deep valleys of the sea, while the cod is always found on the banks. When sun-dried it is called stock-fish.
LINGET. Small langridge; slugs.
LINGO. A very old word for tongue or dialect, rather than language or speech.
LININGS. The reef-bands, leech and top linings, buntline cloths, and other applied pieces, to prevent the chafing of the sails. In ship-building, the term means thin dressed board nailed over any rough surface to give it a finish.
LINKISTER. An interpreter; linguist.
LINKS. A northern phrase for the windings of a river; also for flat sands on the sea-shore, and low lands overflowed at spring tides.
LINK WORMING. Guarding a cable from friction, by worming it with chains.
LINNE. A Gaelic term for pool, pond, lake, or sea.
LINSEY-WOLSEY. A stuff in extensive use commercially; it is a mixture of flax and wool.
LINSTOCK. In olden times it was a staff about 3 feet long, having a sharp point at the foot to stick in the deck, and a forked head to hold a lighted match. It gave way to the less dangerous match-tub, and since that to gun-locks, friction-tubes, &c. Shakspeare in Henry V. says: