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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I).
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BINNEN, BIN'IN', n. [′bɪnən, ′bɪ̢nən Sc.; ′bɪŋən, ′bəiŋən Avoch, Crm.]

1. Binding of sheaves.Mry. 1873 J. Brown Round Table Club 339:
The corn needs . . . the same rape-makin', the same bin'in' . . . fither it be cuttit wi' machine or scythe.
Abd.(D) 1903 W. Watson Glimpses o' Auld Lang Syne 126:
When he had sounded my father on my capabilities at binin' . . . forkin' to the rick, etc. he fee't me.

2. (See quots.)Mry.2 1914:
In the fishing villages on the Moray Firth, binnen is used in a general way to indicate the piece of cord at the end of a line to fasten it to the one previously shot.
Bnff. (Whitehills) 1927 (per Bnff.9):
Binnen, lines adjoining teesit, teydin and warly buoys: so “binnen of the swing.”

3. A tether.Abd. 1915 (per Mry.2); Ayr.4 1928:
Binnen, chain used for fastening cattle to their stalls.
w.Sc. 1887 Jam.6:
The cow brak fra the bin'in.
Uls. 1910 (2nd ed.) P. W. Joyce Eng. as We Speak it in Ireland 215:
Binnen; the rope tying a cow to a stake in a field.

[Orig. vbl. form in ing of Bind, v., q.v.]

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