Definition of "linter" [linter]

• The short fibers that cling to cottonseeds after the first ginning. Often used in the plural. (noun)
• A machine that removes these short fibers from the seeds of cotton. (noun)

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• "Hurley's occasional step and soft whistle out in the "linter" at the rear where lay his packing-boxes."
• ""I'se gwine to make it 'spectable, so she won't be' shamed if she ever comes back to see whar she was bawn," he had thought, and to him it seemed almost palatial, with its addition, which he called a "linter," and which consisted of a large room furnished with a most heterogeneous mass of articles gathered here and there as he could afford them."
• ""linter" of the corral, he had been roused by the sudden yell at the ranch, followed by swift shooting, screams and cries of Mrs. Bennett and the children, the outburst of flame, and then he saw them, the"