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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lint \Lint\ (l[i^]nt), n. [AS. l[=i]net flax, hemp, fr l[=i]n
flax; or perh. borrowed fr L. linteum a linen cloth, linen,
from linteus linen, a., fr linum flax, lint. See {Linen}.]
1. Flax.
2. Linen scraped or otherwise made into a soft, downy or
fleecy substance for dressing wounds and sores; also fine
ravelings, down fluff, or loose short fibers from yarn or
fabrics.
{Lint doctor} (Calico-printing Mach.), a scraper to remove
lint from a printing cylinder.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
lint
n 1: fine ravellings of cotton or linen fibers
2: cotton or linen fabric with the nap raised on one side used
to dress wounds
From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]:
lint [from Unix's `lint(1)', named for the bits of fluff it
supposedly picks from programs] 1. vt To examine a program closely for
style, language usage, and portability problems, esp. if in C, esp. if
via use of automated analysis tools, most esp. if the Unix utility
`lint(1)' is used This term used to be restricted to use of `lint(1)'
itself but (judging by references on Usenet) it has become a shorthand
for {desk check} at some non-Unix shops, even in languages other than C.
Also as v. {delint}. 2. n. Excess verbiage in a document, as in "This
draft has too much lint".
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
lint
A {Unix} {C} language processor which carries out more
thorough checks on the code than is usual with C {compiler}s.
Lint is named after the bits of fluff it supposedly picks from
programs. Judging by references on {Usenet} this term has
become a shorthand for {desk check} at some non-Unix shops,
even in languages other than {C}. Also used as {delint}.
[{Jargon File}]
(1994-11-14)
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