A variant or dialectal term, possibly referring to a small hermitage or hermit's dwelling, though this is a rare or archaic usage.
Possibly a diminutive form combining hermi- or hermit with a diminutive suffix -in. The etymology is uncertain and the word appears in few historical records.
This word is so obscure that it might be a ghost word—a term that appears in dictionaries only because it was copied from an earlier error, or it survives in a tiny regional dialect that linguists haven't fully documented.
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