Brewer's: Lamminin, Lamkin, Linkin

or Bold Rakin. A scottish ogre, represented in the ballad as a bloodthirsty mason; the terror of the Scotoh nursery.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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