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

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

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers

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

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 Sir Walter Scott

Fu' length they a' stretch out Upon ae bink that green trees hap In shade.

From The Haunted Hour An Anthology by Margaret Widdemer

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

From The McBrides A Romance of Arran by John Sillars

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

‘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

For fault of wise men fools sits on binks.

From Collection of Scotch Proverbs by Pappity Stampoy