单词 | calfin |
释义 | ▪ I. † ˈcalfin, n. Obs. Sc. Also calfing, colfin. [Jamieson suggested connexion with F. calfater calfret.] The wadding or other stopping of a gun.
1676W. Row Contn. Blair's Autobiog. xii. App. (1848) 587 Such other calfine as was at hand. 1722in Wodrow Sufferings Ch. Scot. II. App. 8 The burning Calfing was left on his Gown. 1736Trial Capt. Porteous 21 (Jam.) He was so near as to see..the colfin flee out of the pannel's gun. ▪ II. † ˈcalfin, v. Obs. Sc. [f. prec. n.] trans. To wad (a fire-arm).
1793Piper o' Peebles 19 (Jam.) It's no been fir'd, I find it fu', Weel calfin'd wi' a clout o' green. |

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