bink

American  

[bingk] / bɪŋk /

noun

• binks
  plural

1. Scot.. a bench for sitting on.

2. Scot.. a seat occupied by a judge or the symbolic seat of the judicial office.

3. Scot.. a shelf of stone or wood used especially for dishes and other kitchenware.

4. Scot.. a natural or fabricated embankment of earth or rock.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• binks
  plural

Example Sentences

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bink binks

There was one tune—bink a bunk bunk, bink a bunk bunk—that went around and around with an agreeable monotony even when the player nodded.

From Chimney-Pot Papers by Fritz August Gottfried Endell

I wonder, Jeanie, aften yet, When sitting on that bink, Cheek touchin' cheek, loof locked in loof, What our wee heads could think!

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

Why, what meaneth this, Jeanie?" said the old man—"The brown four-year-auld's milk is not seiled yet, nor the bowies put up on the bink.

From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Sir Walter Scott

"Toby, uf you ain'd dake ut by der builtun-loan, blease put ut in der bink?"

From In the Arena Stories of Political Life by Booth Tarkington

Menie turned towards the bink, to lay aside her bonnet, and was silent.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various

For fault of wise men fools sits on binks.

From Collection of Scotch Proverbs by Pappity Stampoy

For faut o' wise men fools sit on binks.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop

‘Hall binks are slippery,’ wrote stern old Knockbrex, challenging his old minister for his too great joy. 

From Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents by Alexander Whyte

A course may be taken up very steep grassy binks with the gully on the right hand.

From Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England by W. P. Haskett Smith