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▪ I. slunk, n. Sc.|slʌŋk| [var. of slonk n.] A muddy or marshy place; a miry hollow.
1665J. Fraser Polichron. (S.H.S.) 346 Not adverting to a slunk or breach in the sea bank, his horse tumbled. 1727P. Walker in Biogr. Presbyt. (1827) II. 18 Lying in the Dear-slunk, in Midst of a great flow Moss. 1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 88 Amang the harbour's sludge and mud; They row'd [= rolled] thegither in the slunk. 1892in Eng. Dial. Dict. (Antrim). ▪ II. slunk, v. Sc. rare. [Cf. prec.] intr. To wade in mud or mire.
17..Ramsay To W. Starrat 28 Feckfu' folk can..slunk thro' moors, and never fash their mind. ▪ III. slunk, ppl. a.|slʌŋk| [f. slink v. 3.] Of calves: Cast prematurely. Cf. slung ppl. a.1 1.
1837Whittock Bk. Trades (1842) 371 Drum-heads are made..from abortives, or at least very young sucking calves called ‘slunk’ by the workmen. |