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

He has mair sense than to ca' anything about the bigging his ain, frae the rooftree down to a crackit trencher on the bink.

From The Antiquary — Volume 02 by Scott, Walter, Sir

"Come, Bridget, Saint Bridget, come in at my door, The crock's on the bink and the rush——" "She's fast," said Nancy.

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

Its ornaments were trenchers of pewter, mixed with a silver cup or two, which, in the highest degree of cleanliness, occupied a range of shelves like those of a beauffet, popularly called "the bink."

From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Scott, Walter, Sir

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

From The McBrides A Romance of Arran by Sillars, John

What ye take shall be your own, and what I take, your sister's; and your faither shanna cast up my toom bink and my ill-stocked mailing.'

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