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skinker Now arch. or dial.|ˈskɪnkə(r)|
Also 6 scincker, skincker, skynker.
[ad. MDu. or MLG. schencker (schincker), or f. skink v. + -er1.]
1. One who draws, pours out, or serves liquor; a tapster; (see also quot. 1847 s.v. skink n.2 1).
1586Praise of Musicke 51 That banquet of the gods where Vulcan plaid the skinker. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 444 The butler or skinker asked him how much he should poure out for everie one. 1647C. Harvey Schola Cordis vi. 3 See how the hellish skinker plies his bowle. 1681T. Flatman Heraclitus Ridens No. 15 (1713) I. 98 From rebellious Taps, and Tapsters and Skinkers, Libera nos. 1702S. Parker tr. Cicero's De Finibus ii. 63 My Skinker perceives himself..agreably affected in filling me out a Glass when he has no Inclination to drink. 1813J. Hogg Queen's Wake 24 Thrice did they drain th' allotted store And wondering skinkers dun for more. 1830Lamb Let. to W. Wordsworth Wks. 1900 XII. 128 [Vulcan] the two-handed skinker. 1852Hawthorne Blithedale Rom. II. xi. 206 Some old-fashioned skinkers and drawers..were spreading a banquet. 1887Browning Parleyings Wks. 1896 II. 733/2 The skinker fast brimmed Their glass with rare tipple's enticement.
†b. (With capital initial.) The constellation Aquarius. Obs.
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. iv. 278 Mean-while the Skinker, from his starry spout, After the Goat, a silver stream pours out. Ibid. ii. ii. iv. Columnes 418 On th' Azure steep Our Parents plac't a Skinker: and by him, Two silver Fishes in his flouds to swim.
†2. A jug or similar vessel used for skinking with. Also attrib. Obs.
1594Wills & Invent. N.C. (Surtees, 1860) 245 The butterye..ij hodgsheads,..j quarte potte, j skinker. 1600Will of Sir R. Bedingfeild (Somerset Ho.), Silver wine pot called a Skynker. 163912th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. IX. 7 Four great flagons... 10 Skinker potts. 7 Tankards. 1646Will of Estcourt (Somerset Ho.), A deepe silver bason with a silver skinker. |