roin

From Anglo-Norman runger, ultimately of imitative origin.

roin (third-person singular simple present roins, present participle roining, simple past and past participle roined)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To growl; to roar.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Yet did he murmure with rebellious sound, / And softly royne, when salvage choler gan redound.

From Anglo-Norman roigne, roin et al., of uncertain origin. Compare roynish.

roin (plural roins)

1. (obsolete) A scab; a scurf, or scurfy spot.

• Iron, Orin, RINO, Rion, inro, inrō, iron, noir, nori

• rolln (Southern Bavarian)

From Middle High German rollen, from Old French roeler, from Medieval Latin rotulāre, from Latin rotula.

• IPA^(key): /ˈroe̯n/

roin (past participle groit) (Central)

1. (intransitive, of something round) to roll
2. (transitive) to roll (something round, e.g. a wheel)
3. (transitive) to roll (something on its wheels)

roin

1. first-person plural of roish

   before us

   • Heeyn yn clane twoaie jeh'n ellan roin. The whole north of the island lay before us.
   • Va'n lhong jeeragh roin. The ship was straight ahead of us.

• roinyn (emphatic)

roin (nominative plural roins)

1. (anatomy) kidney