rin

USRIN/ɹɪn/

Pluralrin

Verbrins, rinning, ran, run

2 meanings of rin

1
nouncountable
A small Japanese coin worth one thousandth of a yen, no longer used today.
Like an old penny that no country uses anymore.
My grandfather kept an old rin in a drawer with other forgotten coins.
A single rin could buy almost nothing by the time it disappeared.
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2
verbdialectaltransitive or intransitive
To move quickly on foot, faster than walking.
Like running fast to catch a bus before it leaves.
The children like to rin across the fields after school.
If it starts to rain, we rin for shelter.
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Origins

Meaning 2

An old English word rinnan meaning "to run," from an even older Germanic word.

Meaning 1

Borrowed from the Japanese word rin.