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A contraction of Lindum-colonia. Lindum was an old British town, called Llyn-dune (the fen-town). If we had not known the Latin name, we should have given the etymology Llyn-collyne (the fen-hill, or hill near the pool), as the old city was on a hill.
The devil looks over Lincoln. (See Devil.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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