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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A short piece of spun-yarn, rope-yarn, or sennit, used to fasten the head of a sail to the yard or gaff by passing several turns through the eyelet-hole in the sail and around the jackstay.
  • noun The spring of a carriage.
  • noun In com., the package in which Ceylonese and other dry goods, as pepper, are imported. The Malabar robbin of rice weighs 84 pounds.
  • noun An occasional spelling of robin.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Naut.) See ropeband.
  • noun (Com.) A kind of package in which pepper and other dry commodities are sometimes exported from the East Indies. The robbin of rice in Malabar weighs about 84 pounds.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A kind of package in which pepper and other dry commodities are sometimes exported from the East Indies.
  • noun nautical Alternative form of ropeband.

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  • n. A kind of package in which pepper and other dry commodities are sometimes exported from the East Indies. The robbin of rice in Malabar weighs about 84 pounds.

    August 11, 2015