leglin

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Ilk ane lifts her leglin [13] and hies her away.

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  1. A wooden milk-pail. [Scots.] The lasses are lonely, dowie, and wae;… Ilk ane lifts her leglin, and hies her away. Jane Elliot, Flowers of the Forest.

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  1. apparently for *legling, diminutive of *legel, from Icelandic legill = Swedish lägel = Old High German lagila, lagella, Middle High German lægele, lægel, lagel, G. legel, lägel, a small cask, from Latin lagena, a flagon: see lagena.
 

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