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winnock Sc.|ˈwɪnək| Forms: 5 wyndok, 6 vynd-, windok, vind-, wyndak, vindock, wink (7 windick, 9 windock), 6– winnock. [Sc. development of windoȝe, window n.; cf. elbock for *elboȝe, elbow n., and warlock. Cf. Gael. uinneag, Ir. fuinneog.] A window.
1492Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 200 Gevin..for Estland burdis to durris and wyndokis..v li. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (Rolls) III. 477 To ane windok of the presoun scho ȝeid. 1582in Campbell Church of Kirkaldy vii. (1904) 63 Yat William Crosby mak ye kirk and glaissen winkes clean ilk Setterday. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Seot. (S.T.S.) II. 436 A gret cannoun Bullat..cam in at the Kirk winnock. 1682Rec. Burgh Lanark (1893) 210 That furthwith ther be ports provydit for four ports..with windicks. c1730Ramsay To æolus 6 To fuff at winnocks and cry ‘Wow!’ 1816Scott Old Mort. xxv, Mony a time I hae helped Jenny Dennison out o' the winnock. 1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 132 The windocks scarce wi' beams did lauff, Whan bangit up Sir Tullidaff. b. attrib., as winnock-bunker [bunker 1], winnock-nail, winnock-pane, winnock-sole (= window-sole); winnock-bred, -brod [bred n., brod n.2], a window-shutter.
1513Rentale Dunkeldense (S.H.S. 1915) 281, 60 lie windok naile. 1546Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. VIII. 453 For glew to the wyndak breddis. 1790A. Wilson 2nd Ep. to Jas. Kennedy Poet. Wks. (1846) 118 And Natures' winnock-brods are closin' Across the lift. 1790Burns Tam o' Shanter 119 A winnock-bunker in the east. 1896Crockett Grey Man i. 10 Put the Bible for a keepsake in your winnock sole. |