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simlin|ˈsɪmlɪn|
Also 8 cimbeline, cymblin, 8– cymling, 9 cymbling, simblin; cymlin.
[Alteration of simnel.]
1. U.S. A species of squash having a scalloped edge. Cf. simnel 2.
1775N. Cresswell Jrnl. 5 July (1925) 95 The rest plundered about the plantation and got some young cabbages, squashes and Cimbelines. 1785T. Jefferson Notes Virginia vi. 68 Cymlings. Cucurbita verrucosa. 1794Morse Amer. Geogr. 148 Cymlings (Cucurbita verrucosa). 1796B. Hawkins Let. 2 Dec. (1916) 21 They made beans, ground peas, cymblins. 1813J. Taylor Arator 138 Cimblins or pumpkins. 1814Brackenridge Views Louisiana 63 Hunters tell of some curious plants on the Arkansas, amongst which are the common sun-flower, the bean, and the simblin. 1832J. P. Kennedy Swallow Barn IV. vi. 100 Little garden-patches..where cymblings..flourished. 1847Darlington Amer. Weeds & Usef. Pl. (1860) 142 Cucurbita melopepo.., Round Squash. Cymling. a1883G. W. Bagby Sel. Misc. Writings (1885) II. 17 A true Virginian..must have..old hare, butter-beans, new potatoes, squirrel, cymlings, snaps. 1896Columbus Dispatch 24 July 9 Peel and slice tender young simlins. 1981Farmstead Mag. Winter 41/1 Common pumpkins are actually a form of the same plant from which has also been developed vegetable marrows, cymlings, or cymlins (also spelled simlins), summer crookneck squashes, and yellow-flowered gourds.
2. dial. = simnel 1 b.
1847–in dialect texts and glossaries (Eng. Dial. Dict.); also in combs., as simlin-cake, simlin-Sunday. |