† calfinn.
Obsolete. Scottish.
The wadding or other stopping of a gun.
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?a1655 J. Blair Contin. in R. Blair Life (1848) (modernized text) App. 587 Such other calfine as was at hand.
1722 R. Wodrow Hist. Sufferings Church of Scotl. II. App. 8 The burning Calfing was left on his Gown.
1736 Trial Capt. Porteous 21 (Jam.) He was so near as to see..the colfin flee out of the pannel's gun.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
† calfinv.
Obsolete. Scottish.
transitive. To wad (a firearm).
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1793 Piper o' Peebles 19 (Jam.) It's no been fir'd, I find it fu', Weel calfin'd wi' a clout o' green.
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