merlin

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See also: Merlin and Merlín

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English merlioun, merlion, marlyon, merlyon, merlinge, from Old French emerillon, esmerillon, from Old Frankish *smiril (“falcon, hawk”), from Proto-Germanic *smirilaz (“falcon, merlin”). Cognate with Old High German smirl (“falcon”), Old Norse smyrill (“falcon”).

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Noun

merlin (plural merlins)

  1. A small falcon, Falco columbarius, that breeds in northern North America, Europe, and Asia.
    Synonym: pigeon hawk
    • Laing Purves, editor, The Canterbury Tales and Faerie Queene: With Other Poems of Chaucer and Spenser. , Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1874, →OCLC, page 220, column 2:
      The gentle falcon, that with its feet distraineth / The kingës hand; the hardy sperhawke eke, / The quailës foe; the merlion that paineth / Himself full oft the larkë for to seek; [...]]
    • 1991, Thomas S. Henricks, “Sport in Feudal England”, in Disputed Pleasures: Sport and Society in Preindustrial England (Contributions to the Study of World History; 28), Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 23:
      Smaller and less powerful falcons included the merlon, the hobby, and the kesterel.
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Etymology 2

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Acronym of moesin-Ezrin-Radixin-like protein +‎ -in (“protein”)

Noun

merlin (uncountable)

  1. (biochemistry) A cytoskeletal protein active in the suppression of tumors.
    Synonym: schwannomin
    Hypernym: protein

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Etymology

Perhaps from Latin marculus.

Pronunciation

Noun

merlin m (plural merlins)

  1. splitting maul: an axe with a long handle, the blade of which is coupled with a broad side that can be used as a sledgehammer

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