English

linthead

From lint + head.

A compound of lint + head

Old French linette ‘grain of flax’

Middle English lynet

English lint

Proto-Indo-European *kap- ‘head’

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Proto-Germanic *haubudą ‘head’

Proto-West Germanic *haubud

Old English hēafod ‘head’

Middle English heed ‘head’

English head

The story

Originated in the textile mills of the Carolinas.

noun A worker in a cotton or other textile mill.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / linthead