Dialectal or archaic plural of empting; contents that have been emptied from a container.
Variant dialectal spelling of emptings, reflecting regional pronunciation patterns where -ings becomes -ins, common in some English dialects and earlier standardization attempts.
Emptins is a regional variant that appears in older texts and dialects—it's what you might hear in 19th-century rural speech meaning 'the stuff that was emptied out' or 'dregs.' It's a reminder that English has countless regional pronunciations that created spelling variants before standardization.
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