See also: Plevin

English edit

Etymology edit

From Old French plevine. See replevin.

Noun edit

plevin (plural plevins)

  1. (obsolete) A warrant or assurance.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for plevin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)