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binkn.Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: bench n. Etymology: Northern and Scots variant of bench n., showing failure of palatalization and assibilation of /k/, perhaps influenced or reinforced by the East Norse word reflected by Old Danish bænk bench n. With senses 4 and 5 compare bank n.1 and the discussion at bench n. In sense 6 perhaps originally an alteration or reinterpretation of bike n.1 N.E.D. (1887) included as sense 6 ‘a receptacle; a bin’ with a 1534 example, but this is better taken as a variant of bing n.1 Chiefly Scottish and English regional ( northern) in later use. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > bench > [noun] α. c1175 (Burchfield transcript) l. 15231 Wiþþ þrinne bennkess bennkedd. a1400 (a1325) (Fairf. 14) l. 5058 And on benke sete ham by. a1450 (1885) 227 I schall buske to þe benke Wher baneres are bright. a1500 (a1400) (Chetham) (1889) l. 4036 (MED) To supper þey went after that, Her leff be her on the benke sat. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil (1959) viii. iii. 193 The benk ybeldyt of the grene holyne. 1597 in M. Wood & R. K. Hannay (1927) V. 362 Making of seatis and benkis in the heiche skollis thair to the bairnis to sit upoun. 1646 in (1854) III. 522 The buirdes in the Hall with thair benkis and formes. 1725 in H. Paton (1939) 468 Six Communion tables and footing of benks for seats. 1866 T. Edmondston 5 Baenk, a bench. β. ?c1350 Ballad Sc. Wars l. 69 in A. Brandl & O. Zippel (1917) 138 (MED) Þe bankers on þe binkes lay.a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) l. 5321 He kist and sett on binc [Gött. binck, Fairf. benk, Trin. Cambr. benche] him bi.1487 (a1380) J. Barbour (St. John's Cambr.) vii. 238 The gud vif on the bynk [1489 Adv. benk] sytand.1578 J. Rolland 137 In he come, and sat doun on ane bink, Befoir the fire, and cryit for meit and drink.1603 (Charteris) (1920) 32 Hal binks ar ay slidder.1603 xvii. sig. B His wyfe may ay sit formest doun, At eyther burde or bink.1855 F. K. Robinson 14 ‘The summer binks’, a benched alcove or summer-house in a garden.1928 J. G. Horne 26 When wash't an' happit in his bink, An' haudin Jocky in a mink.1988 G. Lamb Bink, a bench, generally of stone.2000 M. Fitt ix. 76 The laddie, curled up on his bink like a doo wi a broken wing, didna dare glower back.society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > place where court is held > [noun] > seat of judgement ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng (Petyt) (1996) ii. 1416 At London at þe benke schewe þer þin askyng. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng (Petyt) (1996) ii. l. 6795 His benk he did þer crie, shireues, balifes he ches þat office couþe guye. a1450 (Digby 102) (1889) 95 (MED) If alle þe men now vnder mone To deme vs were brouȝt on benke. a1500 (a1460) (1994) I. xxx. 420 When ye were set as syres on bynke. 1663 ‘P. Stampoy’ 19 For fault of wisemen fools sits on binks. 1981 2 11 It's no muckle found for extendit discourse, frae the pulpit or the platform, the judge's bink or the professor's lectern. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > stand > [noun] > shelf c1520 in B. Cusack (1998) 53 Item for the bynkkis in the hall wt A dubyll hek I bowght thame off nycholis beuerlay. 1657 S. Colvil (1751) 67 The Good-man keeps it, as we think, Behind a dish, upon the bink. 1776 D. Herd (ed. 2) II. 231 She took the dish-clout aff the bink. 1816 W. Scott II. x*. 281 Ony thing..frae the rooftree down to a crackit trencher on the bink. 1864 J. C. Atkinson Bink, a bench. Upon those of stone at cottage doors, the fresh scoured milkpails and other dairy utensils are oft seen placed to dry and sweeten. 1963 H. Orton & W. J. Halliday I. ii. 564 Q[uestion]. What do you call this, on which you keep your pans?.. [Isle of Man] Bink. 1966 D. Sutherland i. iv. 70 The dresser, or bink, was made from a large slab of smooth blue stone and formed the principal piece of furniture apart from the kitchen table. 1978 A. Fenton xx. 166 By one wall was a benk made by supporting heavy planks of wood on hard turf or stones, at the same height as the restin-chair. 2004 R. Fairnie (SCOTS) No. 129 A traditional Breton wardrobe an bink haed been walit oot for poindin. the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > ridge > [noun] > ridge of earth 1568 (a1508) W. Kennedy Flyting (Bannatyne) in (1998) I. 209 Na fowlis..amangis tha binkis Biggis nor abydis. 1659 P. C. Plockhoy 28 Esteeming less of poverty, than of superfluity, of the honour, then of the state,..of a green bink of Turf, then of a costly Couch. 1778 A. Ross (ed. 2) 19 Up thro' the cleughs, where bink on bink was set, Scrambling wi' hands and feet she taks the gate. 1807 J. Headrick 153 On putting down a bore in moss binks, water spouted up. 1827 W. Tennant 3 There sat he, on lone bink reclin'd. 1879 A. G. Murdoch 32 Let's owre to yon bit floo'ry bink, Sweet-shaded by yon mossy rock. 1930 R. Clapham in C. Frederick et al. xxviii. 269 It is on these sheltered ledges, or ‘Binks’ as they are locally termed, that the hill-foxes find snug lying. 1991 T. S. Law in T. Hubbard 31 Oasis alane in this haill wilderness whaur ilka bink an rowe o the camel pad maun gang. society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > other places in mine 1675 (Royal Soc.) 10 451 From the bottom run four Binks, as they call them; four yards wide, and forty yards long, except that in which they met the fiery damp, which wants four or five yards of its due length. The Bink in which the damp is, is the farthest from the Air, which is communicated from the other Pits. 1686 R. Plot iii. 136 A Workman in another Bink hard by, fear'd the roof would have fallen in. 1797 J. Curr 15 The long way of working collieries, where the roads along the benk faces are narrow. 1834 A. Watts 16 The face of the coal where they work they call a benk. One is the deep benk, the other the basset benk. 1940 87/1 Benk, the place underground where coal is being broken from the face of the coal seam. 1962 (Brit. Libr. Sound Archive) (Survey Eng. Dial.: C908) (MS transcript) Track 9 Main roads in there these benks, getting thick and wide. the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > bee-keeping > [noun] > beehive the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > the wasps > nest 1824 J. Scott New Song in 92 And folks walked to-and-fro, as thick as bum-bees in a bink. 1904 Aug. 168 The children were..hunting after wasp binks to send to some person in London. 1923 G. Watson 55 Bink, a nest of wasps or wild-bees. 1995 (Nexis) 22 Aug. 14 In conversation we used the phrases a wasp-bike and a wasp-bink. ?2002 I. W. D. Forde ii. 188 He kepit bies in binks at hiz warks. Derivatives c1175 (Burchfield transcript) l. 15232 Forr þær wass an bennkinnge lah. c1175 (Burchfield transcript) l. 15231 Wiþþ þrinne bennkess bennkedd. 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