bink

American  

[bingk] / bɪŋk /

noun

plural

binks

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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Example Sentences

"Let me once win the peat bink," says Dan, "and I'll wander the devil himsel'."

From The McBrides A Romance of Arran by Sillars, John

When he got there, he found his mother sitting on the bink by the door knitting quietly.

From The Manxman A Novel - 1895 by Caine, Hall, Sir

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 Stevenson, Burton Egbert

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 Endell, Fritz August Gottfried

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