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▪ I. ˈrumkin1 Now arch.
Also 7 romekin, rumken.
[app. of LG. origin.]
Some kind of drinking-vessel.
α1636Davenant Wits iv. H iv b, Wine, ever flowing in large Saxon Romekins About my board. 1668― News from Plimouth iii. i, I'll come, e're you can pledge Two Romekins of Wine!
β1656in Festive Songs (Percy Soc.) 68 Ale in Saxon rumken then, Such as will make grim Malkin prate. 1664Cotton Scarron. 108 With that she set it to her nose And off at once the Rumkin goes. 1801Lamb John Woodvil ii, Ale in a Saxon rumkin then, makes valour burgeon in tall men. 1823Blackw. Mag. XIV. 521 Put it not into bottle or jug, Cannikin, rumkin, flagon, or mug.
▪ II. ˈrumkin2
[app. f. rump n.1 + -kin.]
The Persian rumpless or tailless cock or hen.
a1672Willughby Ornith. ii. x. (1676) 110 Gallum Persicum..Hoc genus etiam à nostratibus alitur, & nonnullis Rumkins dicitur. Ibid. Pl. 26 Gallus ex Persia, a Rumkin. 1688Holme Armoury ii. 251/2 The Persian Cock..wants a rump and tail;..with us they are generally called Rumkines. 1776A. Russell Aleppo 63 The rumkin, or cock and hen without rumps. 1840Penny Cycl. XVIII. 65/1 The Rumpless or Persian Cock, or ‘Rumkin’, as it was formerly termed, is tailless. 1849D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yd. (1865) 282 The feathers of the variety of fowls called ‘rumkins’..are as much proof against rain as those of other fowls. |