The earlier, original meaning of brenin was simply a person of status.

The most common or earliest historical meaning for the movement is not clear.

However, the word had an earlier nautical meaning, referring to an upper sail of a tall ship.

An early meaning of the word clinic was, 'one who gets baptism on a sick bed'.

Hence the pictures above show a "crossbar switch" using the earlier meaning.

The bowline's name has an earlier meaning, dating to the age of sail.

That noun's early meaning of "opinion" soon gave way to "condemnation," the sense we use today.

Given the earlier meanings above, this story is probably apocryphal.

This has nothing to do with the earliest meaning of the phrase, which is "to be certain."

This earlier meaning is still in standard use by digital media performers to signify the simultaneous presence of the human and the technological other.