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† kinkin Sc. Obs.
Also 6 kynkyn, 7 kinkine, 8 kinken.
[a. MDu. kintken, kinneken, var. of kindeken kilderkin. See also kempkin.]
‘A small barrel, a keg, a kilderkin’ (Jam.).
c1500in Cosmo Innes Scot. in Mid. Ages viii. (1860) 248 [The Abbot of Holyrood is charged for a] kynkyn [of olives]. 1594Compt Buik D. Wedderburne (S.H.S.) 132 To by a kynkyn seap. a1670Spalding Troub. Chas. I (1851) II. 469 He cumis down Die syd..plunderis about 20 barrellis or kinkenis of pulder. 1685in Scott. N. & Q. (1900) Dec. 92/1 Half kinkin soap. |