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▪ I. † ˈcalfin, n. Obs. Sc.
Also calfing, colfin.
[Jamieson suggested connexion with F. calfater calfret.]
The wadding or other stopping of a gun.
1676W. Row Contn. Blair's Autobiog. xii. App. (1848) 587 Such other calfine as was at hand. 1722in Wodrow Sufferings Ch. Scot. II. App. 8 The burning Calfing was left on his Gown. 1736Trial Capt. Porteous 21 (Jam.) He was so near as to see..the colfin flee out of the pannel's gun.
▪ II. † ˈcalfin, v. Obs. Sc.
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To wad (a fire-arm).
1793Piper o' Peebles 19 (Jam.) It's no been fir'd, I find it fu', Weel calfin'd wi' a clout o' green. |