Definition of "balin" []

• An unknown plant, supposed to have wonderful medicinal virtues. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The oldest tradition they possess refers to a time shortly after the overthrow of the Majapahit dynasty in Java, about the middle of the 15th century; but it has been supposed that there must have been Indian settlers here before the middle of the 1st century, by whom the present name, probably cognate with the Sanskrit _balin_, strong, was in all likelihood imposed."
• "You cant talk over a fone till your able to sit down an make one out of an old cigar box an a piece of balin wire."
• ""I can chop my wagon to pieces and be on the road again in twenty minutes, if I got plenty of balin 'wire.""