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skinking |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Skink \Skink\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Skinked}; p. pr & vb n. {Skinking}.] [Icel. skenja akin to Sw sk["a]ka, Dan. skienke AS scencan D. & G. schenken As scencan is usually derived from sceonc sceanc shank, a hollow bone being supposed to have been used to draw off liquor from a cask. [root]161. See {Shank}, and cf {Nunchion}.] To draw or serve, as drink. [Obs.] Bacchus the wine them skinketh all about --Chaucer. Such wine as Ganymede doth skink to Jove. --Shirley.
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