lint /lint/

1. Flax (Scot)
2. Scraped linen, or a cotton substitute, for dressing wounds
3. Cotton fibre (esp US)
4. Raw cotton
5. Small pieces of thread, fluff, etc that cling to clothes and furniture and accumulate in the filters of washing machines and driers and in navels

linˈter noun (US)

1. A machine for stripping off short cotton fibre from the ginned seeds
2. (in pl) the fibre so removed

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