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

"A ring—a ring!" was now shouted, until the dark rafters, and the hams that hung on them, trembled again, and the very platters on the "bink" clattered against each other.

From International Short Stories English by Various

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

"Will ye wait till that wasp's bink is buzzin' aboot yer lugs?"

From The McBrides A Romance of Arran by John Sillars

Gin a’ tales be true, they hae the warmest place at his bink this vera minute. 

From Folk-Lore and Legends Scotland by Anonymous

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

For fault of wise men fools sits on binks.

From Collection of Scotch Proverbs by Pappity Stampoy

‘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

For faut o' wise men fools sit on binks.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop