† rinkn.1
literary (chiefly poetic (frequently in alliterative verse)). Obsolete.
A man, a person; esp. a knight, a warrior.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > warrior > [noun]
wyec900
rinkeOE
earlOE
manlOE
champion?c1225
warrer?c1225
drightmanc1275
here-dringc1275
here-gumec1275
here-kempec1275
wal-kempc1275
warrior1297
battlerc1300
fighterc1300
battle-wrighta1400
man-of-war1449
frekec1475
war-manc1485
combatant1489
Mars1565
warfarer1591
combater1598
Mavortian1598
brave1601
fire-eater1792
war-wolf1810
war-hound1812
war-dog1846
toa1860
Mavors1868
fightist1877
ninja1964
simba1964
the world > people > person > man > [noun]
churla800
werec900
rinkeOE
wapmanc950
heOE
wyeOE
gomeOE
ledeOE
seggeOE
shalkOE
manOE
carmanlOE
mother bairnc1225
hemea1250
mother sona1250
hind1297
buck1303
mister mana1325
piecec1325
groomc1330
man of mouldc1330
hathela1350
sire1362
malea1382
fellowa1393
guestc1394
sergeant?a1400
tailarda1400
tulka1400
harlotc1405
mother's sona1470
frekea1475
her1488
masculinea1500
gentlemana1513
horse?a1513
mutton?a1513
merchant1549
child1551
dick1553
sorrya1555
knavea1556
dandiprat1556
cove1567
rat1571
manling1573
bird1575
stone-horse1580
loona1586
shaver1592
slave1592
copemate1593
tit1594
dog1597
hima1599
prick1598
dingle-dangle1605
jade1608
dildoa1616
Roger1631
Johnny1648
boy1651
cod1653
cully1676
son of a bitch1697
cull1698
feller1699
chap1704
buff1708
son of a gun1708
buffer1749
codger1750
Mr1753
he-man1758
fella1778
gilla1790
gloak1795
joker1811
gory1819
covey1821
chappie1822
Charley1825
hombre1832
brother-man1839
rooster1840
blokie1841
hoss1843
Joe1846
guy1847
plug1848
chal1851
rye1851
omee1859
bloke1861
guffin1862
gadgie1865
mug1865
kerel1873
stiff1882
snoozer1884
geezer1885
josser1886
dude1895
gazabo1896
jasper1896
prairie dog1897
sport1897
crow-eater1899
papa1903
gink1906
stud1909
scout1912
head1913
beezer1914
jeff1917
pisser1918
bimbo1919
bozo1920
gee1921
mush1936
rye mush1936
basher1942
okie1943
mugger1945
cat1946
ou1949
tess1952
oke1970
bra1974
muzhik1993
eOE Metres of Boethius (transcript of damaged MS) (2009) xxii. 45 Hu mæg ænig man andsware findan ðinga æniges.., þeah hine rinca hwilc rihtwislice æfter frigne?
OE Crist III 1114 Niðhycgende..of his sidan..swat forletan, þær blod ond wæter bu tu ætsomne ut bicwoman fore eagna gesyhð, rinnan fore rincum, þa he on rode wæs.
OE Beowulf (2008) 399 Aras þa se rica, ymb hine rinc manig.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 2587 Heo smiten togædere..breken brade sperren bordes þer scænden, redde blod scede, rinkas feollen.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 1193 (MED) What rink so he rauȝt, he ros neuer after.
c1390 Pistel of Swete Susan (Vernon) l. 198 (MED) Þo Ros vp with rancour þe Renkes reneyed.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) 592 (MED) For he is þe gropande God, þe grounde of alle dedez, Rypande of uche a ring þe reynyez and hert.
c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. iv. 134 (MED) Resoun among þise renkis [v.rr. Reynkes, renges] reherside þise wordis.
c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 222 (MED) Þai redyn on þe ryȝt way and radle þai rydyn, Þe red rowys of þe day þe rynkkys kouþyn rade.
c1440 Sir Degrevant (Thornton) (1949) 1105 (MED) When þe renkes [v.r. renkus] gan mete..Knyghtis tombled in þe strete.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 207 Saye to your lorde I sende hym gretynge, but I have no joy of youre renckys thus to rebuke me and my lordys.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1897–1973) 168 (MED) Downe dernly to fall as renk most ryall: hayll, the worthyest of all, to the must I bow!
1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. aii Renkis of grete renovne..Cumly kingis with crovne.
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 7 With mony rynk that ryall wes and ryke, In plane battell.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 7486 Philmen..his horse toke; Raght hym full radly to a rynke of his owne.
1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. P.iii Meleager..ran vpon the sayd Egyptian renk: And cut him in both kneez.
1568 Christis Kirk on Grene in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 263 No rink mycht him arreist.
?c1600 (c1515) Sc. Field (Lyme) 305 in I. F. Baird Poems Stanley Family (D.Phil. thesis, Univ. of Birm.) (1990) 242 Every ryncke [c1650 Percy ring] to his reste full radlie him dressed.
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rinkn.2
/rɪŋk/, U.S. /rɪŋk/, Scottish English /rɪŋk/ Originally Scottish.† 1. Scottish.
a. The space of ground within which a battle, combat, joust, or race takes place; a course marked out for riding or running in. Chiefly in rink's end (see rink's end n. at Compounds 2). Also figurative. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > place for sports or games > [noun]
ring?a1400
rink1489
game place1542
playing field1583
rink-room1594
stadium1603
cirque1644
xystus1664
amphitheatre1710
field1730
grandstand1754
chunk-yard1773
sports ground1862
park1867
sports field1877
pitch1895
close1898
sports centre1907
padang1909
sports stadium1911
bowl1913
field house1922
sportsdrome1951
sports complex1957
astrodome1964
dome1965
sportsplex1974
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) ii. 365 Knychtis..swa fell strakys gave and tuk, That all the renk about thaim quouk.
1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 812 In the rowme of ane renk in fewtir kest he.
1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 837 The riche restles men out of the renk past.
b. The course or way on which a person is going. Esp. in to run one's rink. Obsolete (in later use archaic and poetic).
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > [noun] > (a) course of conduct or action
wayeOE
pathOE
waya1225
tracea1300
line13..
dancea1352
tenor1398
featc1420
faction1447
rink?a1500
footpath1535
trade1536
vein1549
tract1575
course1582
road1600
country dance1613
track1638
steeragea1641
rhumb1666
tack1675
conduct1706
walk1755
wheel-way1829
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Fox, Wolf, & Husbandman l. 2432 in Poems (1981) 91 The Feind..Arctand ilk man to ryn vnrychteous rinkis.
c1508 Want of Wyse Men (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems R. Henryson (1908) III. 170 Than regnyt reule, & resone held his [1568 Bann. þair] rynkis.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. xii. 86 Buskis wythdrawis..To reyd thair renk, and rovmis thaim the way.
1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 551 Bot gif thow raik out of my renk, full raith sall thow rew.
1591 R. Bruce Serm. (1863) 382 To run out the rink that the Lord has set before him.
1591 R. Bruce Serm. (1843) 385 So much the nearer we draw to it, let us mend our renk.
c1600 A. Montgomerie Poems (2000) I. 32 That rink he ran.
1871 P. H. Waddell Psalms frae Hebrew xix. 5 Blythe as ane giant is till run his rink.
c. A bout or encounter in a joust or tournament. Obsolete (in later use archaic and poetic).
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [noun] > joust or tournament > a course in
racec1440
rink1508
1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. ciiii Twa rynnyng renkis raith the riolyse has tane Ilk freik to his feir to frestin his fa.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. x. 91 Thir maneir of renkeis and juperteis of batale Ascanyus hantit.
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. xvi. x. f. 237/2 In the thrid rynk lord wellis wes doung out of ye sadyll.
1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) ii. 46 Trumpettis and schalmis wt a schowt Playid or the rink began.
1568 D. Lindsay Justing Watsoun & Bour 35 At that rude rink, James had bene strykin doun.
1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 144 But sae it happen'd that nae scaith That renk wrocht.
d. The action of running; an instance of this. Obsolete.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > going swiftly on foot > [noun] > running > a spell or act of
coursec1300
rena1325
racea1400
rinka1522
run1638
scour1820
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) x. vii. l. 142 Towart quham Pallas bownyt has ful sone, And in hys renk on this wys maid hys boyn.
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. i. x. 59 Ouresett with bleding of his woundis and fast rink.
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. iii. iv. f. 27/1 The Romanis ar..swift of rynk.
1596–7 in J. Stuart Misc. Spalding Club (1841) I. 86 [They] tuik ane rink or raice besyid the wattergange.
2.
a. Any of the sets of players into which the sides in a curling or quoits match are divided.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > curling > [noun] > curler > set of players
rink1776
1776 Minutes Sanquhar Soc. 16 Jan. in J. Kerr Curling (1890) 126 The society agreed to form themselves into six rinks of eight players each.
1823 in J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (at cited word) The long pending match at quoits..took place, 24 on each side, forming 12 rinks.
1849 Chambers's Information for People II. 651/1 Every rink [is] to be composed of four players a side, each with two stones, unless otherwise mutually agreed upon.
1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 713/1 Matches..with numerous competitors formed into rinks of four players a side, two stones being used by each player.
1881 R. Macgregor Pastimes & Players xi. 141 A common number of players in one rink is eight—four against four; but in some places more play on one side, and in others less.
1897 D. W. Purdie Poems 97 Ilk skip, on whom the duty's laid To form his rink, sune picks his men.
1915 E. P. Weaver et al. Canad. Woman's Ann. xv. 266 ‘The Ladies' Edmonton Curling Club’..for the last two seasons has sent rinks to the Banff Bonspiel.
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 3 Feb. 35/5 Webb, whose rink is composed of Jean Dye, Bill and Helen Ferguson, scored 39 points for its three wins.
2009 Ottawa (Canada) Citizen (Nexis) 7 Feb. Rachel Homan and her Ottawa Curling Club rink has made the playoff round at the Canadian Junior Curling Championships.
b. Bowls. Originally: (esp. Scottish) the two teams of competing players allocated to a particular division of a bowling green. Now usually: either one of these teams. Cf. sense 3b.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > bowls or bowling > [noun] > player > players on one rink
rink1864
1864 W. W. Mitchell Man. Bowl-playing 21 When..any number of players, not exceeding eight, form sides and commence a game, they make what is called a rink.
1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 129/2 Rink,..(2) All the players upon the two sides..(more common in Scotland than England.)
1906 Canadian Mag. Sept. 475/2 Like curling,..[bowling] permits of an adjournment occasionally in order that..the opposing rinks may ‘join’ each other and have ‘something’.
1910 Encycl. Brit. IV. 347/2 The four players in a rink are known as the leader, second player, third player, and skip (or driver, captain, or director).
1923 J. A. Manson Bowling vi. 100 A rink or team shall consist of four players, each playing two bowls.
1976 S. Wales Echo 26 Nov. The only Merthyr rink which returned a winning card was that skipped by Noel Tippett.
2007 Bury Free Press (Nexis) 10 Aug. The B team visited Thurston and picked up a six-point maximum with a 40-shot overall victory. G Finlayson's rink won by 24 shots.
3.
a. A stretch of ice measured off and marked out for the game of curling.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > curling > [noun] > area of ice
rack1784
rink1787
curling-rink1814
1787 R. Burns Poems (new ed.) 150 To guard, or draw, or wick a bore, Or up the rink like Jehu roar.
1790 A. Wilson Poems 197 Far aff the Curler's roaring rink, Re-echo'd loud, wi' noisy clink.
1817 Lintoun Green in R. Brown Comic Poems 38 Roaring up the rink he flies.
1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 6 569 What has been..justly said of a more serious predicament, is exhibited literally on a Rink.
1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports 511 A line..is drawn across the rink at each end, at a distance from the tee equal to one~sixth of the rink.
1895 Times 30 Jan. 6/2 Ninety rinks were laid out on the ice.., and they were occupied by 545 players.
1904 J. Kerr Curling in Canada & U.S. 441 Stratford has one of the finest rinks in Canada, and also has a curling rink which is devoted to curling alone, and they are able to lay out eight rinks of ice at one time.
2002 Aberdeen Evening Express (Nexis) 6 Sept. 38 More advanced players have their own shoes and are able to speed up the rink at an impressive rate.
b. Each of the measured and marked strips on a bowling green on which a match is played.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > bowls or bowling > [noun] > bowling-green or part of
bowling-green1646
crown1834
crown green1834
rink1864
1864 W. W. Mitchell Man. Bowl-playing 21 The space or division of the Green is also commonly called a rink.
1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 129/2 Rink, (1) a narrow section of a bowling-green, some twenty feet in breadth taken by one party for their game.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 328/2 The Scottish Association holds that the ditch within the limits of the rink is part of the green so far as the jack and the touchers are concerned.
1906 Indoors & Out Sept. 273/1 As each rink is occupied by eight players, a full size green divided into six rinks can accommodate forty-eight players in all.
1975 Oxf. Compan. Sports & Games 94/2 The green is divided by boundaries of fine string into six ‘rinks’ the length of the green and 19 to 21 ft. (5.8–6.4 m.) wide.
1999 G. W. Beehag in D. E. Aldous Internat. Turf Managem. Handbk. xvi. 273/2 Marking out of lawn bowling greens is based on the width of a rink. Marks on the bowls rest are typically used to define the width of a rink.
4.
a. An extensive sheet of ice for skating, and later for competitive sports (as curling, ice hockey, or speed skating); (now) esp. a measured, enclosed area of natural or artificial ice used for such a sport. Cf. skating-rink at skating n. b.Earliest in ice-rink (ice rink n. at ice n. Compounds 8).In quot. 1883 in extended use.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skating > [noun] > rink
ice1811
ice rink1848
rink1848
skating-rink1867
glaciarium1878
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > ice hockey > [noun] > playing area
rink1848
1848 Sc. Jrnl. 10 June 233/2 At manly amusements of prowess or art, He never was hindmost in acting his part. At ice-rink, or foot-ball, he foremost was still.
1861 F. Duncan Our Garrisons in West ii. 30 When I first saw a rink, the thing that struck me most was not so much the grace of the ladies skating,..but the beautiful and cunning way they fall.
c1879 R. L. Stevenson Alpine Diversions in Ess. Trav. (1905) 219 Of skating little need be said; in so snowy a climate the rinks must be intelligently managed.
1883 E. Pennell-Elmhirst Cream Leics. 131 The roads being rinks of the smoothest and most unbroken description.
1884 Vermont Watchman 13 Feb. 4/1 In the larger villages the..hockey rink..should supplant other enervating and pernicious means of amusements.
1896 Times (Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont.) 27 Feb. 1/4 The Niagaras..know just how to toss the puck around from one end of the rink to the other in order to score.
1926 Yale Banner & Pot Pourri 318 Princeton kindly repeated her offer of the Hobey Baker rink, and also it was discovered that the new Madison Square Garden could often be used.
2006 Washington Post 5 Feb. (Sports section) 1 A pair of speedskates might be relatively cheap, but how many countries have speedskating rinks?
b. A hall or stadium built to house an ice rink or (later) a roller rink.
ΚΠ
1861 F. Duncan Our Garrisons in West ii. 30 But skating in America is carried on also in a rink, or large building, floored, so to speak, with the most beautiful ice.
1867 Private Laws State of Illinois III. 79 Real estate..for a gymnasium, or for erecting thereon a skating rink, or such other buildings as may be necessary for such and similar purposes.
1945 W. H. Pugsley Saints, Sinners & Ordinary Seamen 90 In the early months of the war..ratings lived in a converted hockey rink.
1948 Billboard 16 Oct. 79/1 (advt.) Roller Skating Rink for Sale. Portable floor and building, 40x104, four months old.
1974 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) 26 Oct. 5- d/1 The Elysium had been a little rink which could accommodate almost 2,000.
1986 M. Forrester Out of Char. (1987) ii. 24 The speed and the excitement of the game..in that enormous bright rink—that was my idea of entertainment.
2008 Marie Claire Oct. 83 I can definitely skate... I spent hours of my childhood at Overlook Roller Rink.
c. A smooth surface for roller skating, made chiefly of asphalt or wood but also (later) of concrete or resin. Also: a period of roller skating (rare). Cf. roller rink n. at roller n.1 Compounds 5, roller skating rink n. at roller skating n. Compounds.Roller-skating became extremely popular in North America and Britain during the 1870s and 1880s (cf. rinkomania n.).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > roller-skating > [noun] > spell of
rink1871
1871 S. Lewis Eight Nights with Reading Club 123 Those who feel utterly unable to wait until the Rink is built, may..amuse themselves..by placing one end of a greased plank on a fence, and sliding down it.
1875 London Society July 64/2 In short, rinks and roller-skating have become quite a new British institution.
1875 S. G. Thomas in R. W. Burnie Mem. & Lett. (1890) v. 48 I recreated myself after a long spell at references by a rink yesterday. I had not been for some time, and found the wheels more popular than ever.
1908 A. S. Mather Let. 15 Feb. in Extracts from Lett. (1910) I. 130–1 The moment we entered the rink, he was greeted on all sides... If a scrimmage started at some other end of the rink (a roller-skating rink, of course) he would be there in a flash.
1996 L. S. Marks Revivals & Roller Rinks v. 130 The roller-skating rinks were generally judged acceptable by respectable small-town middle-class Christians.
Compounds
C1.
Categories »
a. (In sense 1a.)
b. (In senses 3a and 4c.)† rink boot n. Obsolete
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1870 Bangor (Maine) Whig & Courier 30 Apr. It resembles the fashionable ‘rink boot’ so pretty for skating costumes.
c1885 in M. Johnson Amer. Advertising (1960) 25 Childs's Cash Shoe Store. ‘Ladies' rink boots’ a specialty.
rink skating n.
ΚΠ
1869 Locomotive Engineers' Monthly Jrnl. Jan. 84/1 You wouldn't believe it, but rink skating is awful on victuals and drink.
1979 Changing Times Aug. 17/2 Though they're popular for rink skating and roller disco, urethane wheels have their biggest impact out of doors.
2003 L. Brooks Skate Crazy 18/1 Much of rink skating up to that point had evolved..into an American style of jitterbug and jive steps done to a fast tempo.
C2. † rink's end n. (also rink end) Obsolete (in early use) the space at the end of a course or race; (later) figurative the end of one's journey (esp. through life).† rink-room n. Obsolete = sense 1a.
ΚΠ
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) v. vi. l. 71 Be this thai wan neir to the rynkis end [1553 renkis end], Irkyt sum deill befor the mark weil kend.
1594 (a1555) D. Lindsay Hist. Squyer Meldrum l. 520, in Wks. (1931) I. 160 He..bowtit fordwart, with ane bend, And ran on to the Rinkis end.
1606 W. Birnie Blame of Kirk-buriall Ded. sig. B2v The Lord..giue your Lordship continuall convoy to your rinks end.
1639 S. Rutherford Let. 5 Aug. (1863) II. 455 It is enough, in a race, to see the goal at the starting-place, howbeit the runners never get a view of it till they come to the rink's end.
1744 J. Welch Forty Eight Select Serm. xvi. 213 There is a Crown before you, which ye will not get till ye get unto your Rinks End, and ye have not yet ended your Race.
rink polo n. originally and chiefly U.S. (now historical) a form of hockey played by teams of five players on roller skates; cf. roller hockey n. at roller n.1 Compounds 5.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > roller-skating > [noun] > games or competitions
polo1883
roller polo1883
rink polo1885
roller hockey1902
roller derby1922
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > hockey > [noun] > played on roller-skates
roller polo1883
rink polo1885
roller hockey1902
1885 Evening Gaz. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) 17 Jan. The Central rink polo team will appear in their new uniforms.
1899 L. S. Welch & W. Camp Yale iii. vi. 626 Single sculling, rink polo, and a dozen other interests have..added new branches for the athletically inclined.
1925 Fitchburg (Mass.) Sentinel 19 May 6/2 ‘Amateurs’ were signed up in secret just like professional baseball players, or the professional rink polo players.
1992 Washington (D. C.) Post (Nexis) 22 July Roller hockey clearly has less of a history but still dates to the 1870s. The Lava Rink in London was the site of a similar game, rink polo.
rink rat n. North American colloquial a young person who spends a great deal of leisure time at a rink; spec. a young person who seeks casual work at an ice (or occasionally roller) rink in return for free admission, etc.In quot. 1925 the name of a team.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > ice hockey > [noun] > enthusiast
rink rat1945
1925 Los Angeles Times 20 Mar. iii. 3/6 The big feature of the night will be the Hockum Hockey game between the Hollywood ‘Goofs’ and the Harold Lloyd Rink Rats.]
1945 L. Shelly Hepcats Jive Talk Dict. 31 Rink rat, skating rink enthusiast.
1970 J. H. Gray Boy from Winnipeg 51 Two Fort Rouge schoolboys from the Kennedy rink rats eventually made good as professionals.
2001 B. Rich Fish Fights vi. 106 Having grown up in Buffalo and put in a lot of time as a hockey rink rat, my dream sport was something that could be done outdoors, in warm sunshine.
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society > leisure > sport > place for sports or games > [noun]
ring?a1400
rink1489
game place1542
playing field1583
rink-room1594
stadium1603
cirque1644
xystus1664
amphitheatre1710
field1730
grandstand1754
chunk-yard1773
sports ground1862
park1867
sports field1877
pitch1895
close1898
sports centre1907
padang1909
sports stadium1911
bowl1913
field house1922
sportsdrome1951
sports complex1957
astrodome1964
dome1965
sportsplex1974
1594 (a1555) D. Lindsay Hist. Squyer Meldrum l. 505, in Wks. (1931) I. 159 That round, rinkroume wes at vtterance.
1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 137 The heralds had the rink-room metit.
rink-string n. a length of string indicating the boundary of a bowling-green rink.
ΚΠ
1960 R. Williams Border Country iv. 113 Harry went up to the bowling green to..set out the rink-strings and the mats.
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rinkv.
/rɪŋk/, U.S. /rɪŋk/ 1. intransitive. Scottish. To prowl, range; to move restlessly about or around.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [verb (intransitive)] > with no fixed aim or wander
wharvec890
woreOE
wandera1000
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wagc1325
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1710 T. Ruddiman in G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneis (new ed.) Gloss. at Renk To Rink; up and down, discurrere, circumire.
a1784 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherd in Sc. Wks. (1938) 181 Now Henny gees it o'er to rink and range, When Peggy comes, newfangle of the change.
a1807 J. Skinner Amusem. Leisure Hours (1809) 77 But likes to rove and rink about, Like highland cowt amo' the heather.
1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xxxv. 245 A set o' cairds rinkin' aboot the pumphel.
1967 Huntly Express 30 June 7 People like myself who ‘rink’ around the countryside.
2. intransitive. To skate on a rink; = roller-skate v. Now rare.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skating > skate [verb (intransitive)] > on rink
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1877 H. Sidgwick in A. Sidgwick & E. M. Sidgwick Henry Sidgwick (1907) v. 326 I ‘rinked’ or ‘runk’ (I do not know how the verb is conjugated)... It is not half as amusing as real skating.
1896 N. Newnham-Davis Three Men & a God 143 You have rinked in the town hall,..have gone over the stables.
1909 ‘W. N. P. Barbellion’ Jrnl. 25 Dec. (1919) 24 I..idly scan magazines in the Library and occasionally rink—with palpitation of the heart as a consequence.
3. transitive. In extended use: to cross (a smooth surface) as if by skating; to cause (something) to move across a surface in this manner.
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1887 Eagle 14 389 No slipp'ry Asphalt echoed to the feet, No plunging cab-horse rinked the public street.
1916 F. Klickman Flower-patch among Hills (1918) xii. 250 They banged the hearthrug out of doors;..they rinked the carpet-sweeper up and down till it made me dizzy.
1946 R. Campbell Talking Bronco 25 The zephyr from the blue nevadas, Stirruped with kestrels, smoothly rinking The level wave where halcyons drowse.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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