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bink Sc. and north. dial.|bɪŋk|
Forms: 3 bennk, 3– benk(e, 3–4 binc, binck, 4 bengk, bynk, 5 bynke, 4– bink.
[Later form of ME. benk = bench n.]
1. A bench or form to sit on; = bench 1.
c1200Ormin 15231 Wiþþ þrinne bennkess bennkedd. a1300Cursor M. 5321 He kist and sett on binc him bi [Gött. binck, Fairf. benk, Trin. benche]. 1375Barbour Bruce vii. 238 The gud vif on the bynk sytand. c1440York Myst. xxvi. 188, I schall buske to þe benke. a1548Thrie Priests Peblis 24 (Jam.) Hal binks ar ay slidder. 1603Philotus xvii, His wyfe may ay sit formest doun, At eyther burde or bink. 1855Whitby Gloss. s.v., The summer binks, a benched alcove or summer-house in a garden.
2. A seat of justice; = bench 2.
1330R. Brunne Chron. 58 At London at þe benke schewe þer þin askyng. c1460Towneley Myst. 317 When ye were set as syres on bynke. 1862Hislop Prov. Scot. 63 For faut o' wise men fools sit on binks.
3. A shelf; particularly, a long flat slab of stone fixed to a wall, used either as a seat or as a shelf; also, a plate-rack; a dresser.
1535Richmond. Wills (1853) 12 A cobbord with a dysbynk. 1657S. Colvil Whigs Supplic. (1751) 67 The Good-man keeps it, as we think, Behind a dish, upon the bink. 1816Scott Antiq. xxvi, Ony thing..frae the roof-tree down to a crackit trencher on the bink. 1818― Hrt. Midl. xiv, Nor the bowies put up on the bink. 1864Atkinson Whitby Gloss., Bink, a bench. Upon those of stone at cottage doors, the fresh scoured milkpails and other dairy utensils are oft seen placed to dry and sweeten.
4. A bank (of earth); = bench 6.
c1500Dunbar Flyting 289 Na fowlis..amangis tha binkis Biggis, nor abydis. 1807J. Headrick Arran 153 On putting down a bore in moss binks, water spouted up.
5. = bench 7, bank n.1 7.
1679Plot Staffordsh. (1686) 136 A Workman in another Bink hard by fear'd the roof would have fallen in. 1797J. Curr Coal Viewer 15 The long way of working collieries, where the roads along the benk faces are narrow. 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 87/1 Benk, the place underground where coal is being broken from the face of the coal seam.
†6. = bing, in sense of bin. Obs.
1534Eng. Ch. Furniture 190 A bynke to ley colis in.
¶ In south of Scotland = bike, wasps' nest. |