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▪ I. † trink, n.1 Obs.
Also (4 pl. treinekys), 4–6 trynk, treinke, 5 trenke, (trimke, trymke), 5–6 trynke, (6 trungke), 7 trinck(e, trinke.
[Origin obscure. Known in AF. (or English in AF. context) from 14th c., and in use till 17th c.; but almost confined to legal enactments. It has been compared as to form with It. trinca a cable, Sp. trinca rope, cord, trincas lashings (Diez), but evidence of connexion with these is wanting.]
A kind of fixed fishing-net formerly used in the Thames and other rivers, concerning which ordinances were made from 14th c. onward.
1311Liber Horn City of London lf. 221 b (MS.) Item ylia un autre manere de Reys qe um apele Treinekys la largesce de 1 pouz et di. 1344Letter Bk. F. London Recds. lf. 80 b, Compertum est..quod predicta retia vocata Treinkes non sunt largitatis in Mallio..nisi dimidii pollicis ad plus. Ideo consideratum est quod comburantur. 1376Rolls of Parlt. II. 331/2 Qe touz les Trynks par entre Loundres & la miere soient oustez. 1423Act 2 Hen. VI, c. 12 §1 Salvez a chescun son droit & title en les Weres Kydelx & Trymkes avantditz. Ibid. c. 19 §1 Item ordeignez est & establiz qe la stacion des Reis & engines appellez Trynkes et de toutz autres maneres reis qe sont..fichez & attachez..soit toutoutrement defenduz... Purveux toutfoitz qe bien lise as possessours des ditz Trynkes..peschier ovec eux..les entraihantz et conveiantz par main come autres peschours [cf. trinker, quot. c 1485]. 1485Letter-Bk. L. Lond. lf. 208 b, That the Nettes called Trenkes be of the largenes of ii Inches in the Masshe in the fore part and an Inche & half large..in..the later part. 1556Chron. Gr. Friars (Camden) 10 This yere [1405] alle the kydelles and trungkes thorowgh⁓out the Temse from the towne of Stanes..unto the watter of Medevey..by the mayer & commonalte of London were dystrowyd and brent. 1630Lex Londinensis (1680) 211 That no Trinckerman or other Fisherman shall buy any Trincke..until he be allowed and thought fit by the Lord Major of London..and seventeen Trinks allowed, and no more. [1688R. Holme Armoury iii. xxii. (Roxb.) 278/1 A Trink, was of old a Kind of Nett to fish withall.]
b. Short for trink-boat: see d.
1557Admir. Crt. Lib. 27 (2) No. 131 Proprietarii duarum navicularum vocatarum ij Trynkes.
c. A fisherman who uses a trink; a trinkerman.
1630Lex Londinensis (1680) 210 That no Trincke shall stand in any Byrth more than is allowed him to stand. Ibid. 212 That each Trincke shall every dark and foggy night hang forth out of his said Trinck-boat one Lanthorn. Ibid., That every Trincke shall at all times and seasons take up..his Anchor at the time of his leaving off from fishing.
d. attrib. and Comb.: trink-boat, a fishing-boat with a trink; trink-cable, a cable used with a trink; trink-man = trinkerman; trink-net = trink.
1630*Trinck-boat [see c above].
1630Lex Londinensis (1680) 212 That every *Trincke Cable be no more then twenty fathom long at the most.
1689in Strype Stow's Surv. (1754) II. v. xxvii. 480/2 All *Trinke-Men shall yearly, at the Guildhall-Chappel, present themselves before the Lord-Mayor or Water-Bailiff.
1584Order Conserv. Thames in Strype Stow's Surv. (1754) I. i. ix. 42/2 No Fishermen, Garthmen..or Tynkermen, shall..make any..Stalker Nets, *Trynck Nets, Purse Nets, Casting Nets [etc.] except they be 2 Inches in the Mash.
▪ II. † trink, n.2 Obs. rare—1.
[? Nasalized form of trick n. 8 a.]
Style of adornment; fashion.
1575Laneham Let. (1871) 36 Hiz beard smugly shauen; and yet hiz shyrt after the nu trink, with ruffs fayr starched, sleeked, and glistering like a payr of nu shooz.
▪ III. trink, n.3 Sc. and dial.
Also 7 trinck.
[perh. a. Norm. (Picard) trenque, trencque, northern form of OF. trenche, tranche trench.]
A trench, channel, watercourse (natural or artificial).
1592Aberdeen Regr. (1848) II. 77 That na channell, stanes, sand, nor any uther thing be cassin in the trink of the watter, or within the fluid merk, out of schippis, craris, or bottis. 1603Ibid. 239 That the haill trinck of the water salbe drawn doun the South syd of the Lochfeild croft..and eist syd of the said loch in the auld trinck to be cassin deper and wyder, and that the water trinck on the south-vest syd of the said locht..salbe stoppit and condamnit. 1812J. Henderson Agric. Surv. Caithn. 200 The lower end in an oblong trink in the earth or floor. 1825Jamieson, Trink, trenk, app. synon. with Eng. trench. 1859–99in Eng. Dial. Dict. |