单词 | wilkin |
释义 | † wilkin Obs. Also 5 wylkyn, wilken, 6 wellkyn, 7 welkyn, wilking. [? orig. a proper name, perh. of Du. or LG. origin.] A ram; a pile-driving engine.
1495Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 156 Rammes of Yron called Wylkyns..j. 1497Ibid. 91 Wilken Rammers of Iren..ij. Ibid. 94 Wilken ramme of iren..j. 1580in P. Thompson Hist. Boston (1856) 310 Lord Clynton to borrow the wellkyn of brasse of this Corporation for his necessarie, according to his desire. 1657Ibid., A great brasse welkyn belonging to the borough, being now no longer useful to this borough, to be sold. 1694Ibid., 10l. paid to John Sherlock to buy a wilking with at Nottingham. [1804 Ibid. note, applied to a pile-driving apparatus.] |

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