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Alkin
alkin
alkin
See also: Alkin
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alkin (not comparable)
- (now dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Of every kind; of all sorts; all kinds of; various and intermingled. [from 9th c.]
- c. 1390, William Langland, Piers Plowman, Prologue:
- Of alkin libbyng laboreres · lopen forth somme / As dykers & delueres · þat doth here dedes ille.
- Alkyn crafty men (craftsmen of every kind)
- c. 1390, William Langland, Piers Plowman, Prologue: