slinkn.
/slɪŋk/, U.S. /slɪŋk/ I. Sense relating to premature or abortive birth.
1. † b. transferred. An illegitimate child; a bastard.
a. An abortive or premature calf or other animal. Chiefly dialect.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [noun] > bringing forth young > bearing prematurely > abortive or premature animal
slink1638
1638 H. Peacham Valley of Varietie 32 The Germans loath to eate of a Slinke (or yong Calfe, cut out of the Cowes belly before it be calved).
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Slink, a cast Calf.
a1800 S. Pegge Suppl. Grose's Provinc. Gloss. (1814)
1895 Argus (Melbourne) 26 Nov. As to ‘slinks’ a great scare seemed to have been created, but from a health point of view they were merely indigestible.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun] > illegitimate child
avetrolc1300
bastardc1330
misbegetc1330
whoresonc1330
horcop14..
get?a1513
misbegotten1546
misbegot1558
mamzer1562
base1571
bantling1593
by-blow1595
by-chopa1637
by-scape1646
by-slipa1670
illegitimate1673
stall-whimper1676
love brata1700
slink1702
child, son of shame1723
babe of love1728
adulterine1730
come-by-chance?1750
byspel1781
love-child1805
come-o'-will1815
chance-child1838
chance-bairn1863
side-slip1872
fly-blow1875
catch colt1901
illegit1913
outside child1930
1702 Comberbach in Ld. Byron & Elms Life 391 What did you go to London for but to drop your slink?
c. The skin or flesh of a premature calf or other animal. Also transferred (quot. 1816).
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > [noun] > meat > other types of meat
gross meatc1460
fish1607
crimp-meat1656
small meata1662
second hand1694
slink1736
soup-meat1841
box meat1856
sacrifice meat1926
MRM1980
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [noun] > skin or hide of young, small, or premature animal
kip1530
slink1736
deacon1889
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > constituent materials > [noun] > flesh > of a premature animal
slink1736
(a)
(b)1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (at cited word) When this [flesh] is palmed on an ignorant purchaser for veal, it is called slink.1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. xv. 319 He hasna settled his [butcher's] account wi' my gudeman..for this twalmonth—he's but slink, I doubt.1736 Compl. Family-piece i. i. 55 Take liquid Styrax, spread it thin upon Sclink, or some very fine Kid's Leather.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Slinks, the skins of prematurely born lambs, calves, etc.
2. attributive.
a. Designating the skins or meat obtained from premature or abortive animals.Sometimes also applied to inferior, bad, or diseased meat.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > constituent materials > [adjective] > of flesh of premature animal
slink1607
the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > [adjective] > relating to meat > from premature or aborted animal
slink1607
the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > [adjective] > relating to meat > other qualities of meat
green1577
slink1607
gelded1621
tenellous1651
jerk1743
staggy1933
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [adjective] > relating to skin of premature animal
slink1607
(a)
(b)1770 P. Skelton Wks. V. 599 Would they indulge in bear bread and slink veal, while their master lives on leeks and cold potatoes?1820 C. R. Maturin Melmoth I. i. 14 There was the slink-veal, flanked with tripe.1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 Oct. 4/3 Preston was deluged with ‘slink’ meat, owing to the laxity of their sanitary system.1895 Argus (Melbourne) 26 Nov. In some countries unborn calves were sold as ‘slink’ meat.1607 T. Cocks Acc. 23 May (MS.) For ij payre of slincke skynne gloves ij s. viij d.
1678 London Gaz. No. 1308/4 A Slink skin Purse.
1711 Act 10 Anne c. 26 §1 All Slink Calve-skins..dressed..with the Hair on.
1796 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XVIII. 520 A good many small and slink kid, and mert lamb-skins.
1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs ii. 96 Slink Foal Skins are always entered, and the Duty charged thereon, as Horse Hides.
b. Designating animals of this kind.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [adjective] > giving birth prematurely > of abortive or premature animal
slink1750
slung1750
1750 Student 1 No. 9. 340 This membrane does not properly appertain to dogs, &c. yet may it be found in slink calves.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Slink-calf, the abortion of a cow.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Slink-lamb, one that has been dropped or born prematurely.
c. In sense ‘trading in or selling slink or diseased meat’, as slink-butcher.
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society > trade and finance > specific types of trade > [adjective] > trading in diseased meat
slink1832
1832 Examiner 89/2 On Sunday morning last a number of slink butchers from Manchester fetched it away in a cart.
1886 St. James's Gaz. 14 May 4 (Cassell) The protection of our own slink-butchers from any dishonourable competition..with their industry.
d. slink-weed n. rose-bay, willow-herb. U.S.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Onagraceae (willow-herbs) > [noun]
willow-herb1578
bindweed nightshade1597
enchanter's nightshade1597
rosebay1597
willow1597
French willow1601
willow-flower1633
rose withy1650
codlings-and-cream1670
willow weed1741
gooseberry fool1785
epilobium1809
onagrad1846
cherry-pie1857
apple pie plant1858
slink-weed1858
fiddle-grass1878
epilobe1883
satin flower1891
1858 H. D. Thoreau Jrnl. 29 Aug. in Writings (1906) XI. ii. 134 F. says they call the cardinal-flower ‘slink-weed’, and say that the eating it will cause cows to miscarry.
1889 Chambers's Encycl. IV. 401/1 This species [Epilobium angustifolium] with several others is common in North America, where it is sometimes called..slink-weed, from a belief that it causes cows to ‘slink’ or miscarry.
II. Senses relating to sneaking or shirking.
3. in combination.1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xiv He's blackguardin' and blastin' away about that quare slink-lookin' chap.
a. dialect or colloquial. A sneaking, shirking, cowardly fellow; a sneak or skulk.
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the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [noun] > skulking > skulker
skulkc1320
skulker1387
flincher1598
quitter1665
slink1824
turnback1843
sneakaway1900
trouble-shirker1908
the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > [noun] > avoiding an action or condition > avoiding duty, work, or exertion > one who
skulkc1320
loundererc1425
old soldier1722
malingerer1785
skulker1785
shirker1799
shirk1818
slink1824
schemer1843
sconcer1843
scrimshanker1882
scrimshank1886
sooner1892
Weary Willie1896
slacker1898
slackster1901
sugarer1904
work-shy1904
gold brick1905
tired Tim (also Timothy)1906
lead-swinger1917
piker1917
gold-bricker1919
slinker1919
poler1938
skiver1941
1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 398 Tho' ye were an unco slink, I'm sad without ye.
1830 Examiner 813/1 He had given Sack a turn because he was such a d——d slink.
1862 Morning Star 24 Jan. 6/5 He had been called a skulk, a slink, a moral coward.
b. dialect and U.S. (See quots.)
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the world > animals > animal body > [noun] > unhealthy animal > weak or thin
rascal1530
wallydraigle1736
spindling1851
slink1863
1863 J. R. Wise New Forest Gloss. s.v. ‘A slink of a thing’..means either a poor, weak, starved creature, or anything which is small and not of good quality.
1891 Cent. Dict. Slink,..a thin or poor and bony fish, especially such a mackerel.
4.
a. A slinking, sneaking, or stealthy pace or tread.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > stealthy
slinking1611
slink1853
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > stealthy movement > [noun]
stalkingc1000
creeping1565
hedge-creeping1579
stealing1581
steal1590
stealth1600
insinuation1608
slinking1611
sneakinga1657
prowl1803
creep1818
sneak1819
lurk1829
slink1853
pussyfooting1956
1853 G. J. Cayley Las Alforjas I. 151 He decamped, with a sort of half slink, half swagger.
1896 F. A. Steel On Face of Waters ii. i. 78 Those who went forth with the dog's trot might return with the cat's slink.
b. A downcast or furtive glance or look. rare.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > a look or glance > [noun] > downcast or furtive
teet1819
underlook1821
slink1863
1863 A. D. T. Whitney Faith Gartney's Girlhood xxxvi The boy showed a slink in his eyes, like one used to shoving and rebuff.
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slinkadj.1
/slɪŋk/, U.S. /slɪŋk/ dialect.
Lank, lean, poor, ill-conditioned.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > weak > weak with ill-nourishment
poor1539
slink1673
nazzardly1675
the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [adjective] > thin
leanc1000
thinc1000
swonga1300
meagrea1398
empty?c1400
(as) thin (also lean, rank) as a rakec1405
macilent?a1425
rawc1425
gauntc1440
to be skin and bone (also bones)c1450
leany?a1475
swampc1480
scarrya1500
pinched1514
extenuate1528
lean-fleshed1535
carrion-lean1542
spare1548
lank1553
carrion1565
brawn-fallen1578
raw-bone1590
scraggeda1591
thin-bellied1591
rake-lean1593
bare-boned1594
forlorn1594
Lented1594
lean-looked1597
shotten herring1598
spiny1598
starved1598
thin-belly1598
raw-boned1600
larbar1603
meagry?1603
fleshless1605
scraggy1611
ballow1612
lank-leana1616
skinnya1616
hagged1616
scraggling1616
carrion-like1620
extenuated1620
thin-gutted1620
haggard1630
scrannel1638
leanisha1645
skeletontal1651
overlean1657
emaciated1665
slank1668
lathy1672
emaciate1676
nithered1691
emacerated1704
lean-looking1713
scranky1735
squinny-gut(s)1742
mauger1756
squinny1784
angular1789
etiolated1791
as thin (also lean) as a rail1795
wiry1808
slink1817
scranny1820
famine-hollowed1822
sharp featured1824
reedy1830
scrawny1833
stringy1833
lean-ribbeda1845
skeletony1852
famine-pinched1856
shelly1866
flesh-fallen1876
thinnish1884
all horn and hide1890
unfurnished1893
bone-thin1899
underweight1899
asthenic1925
skin-and-bony1935
skinny-malinky1940
skeletal1952
pencil-neck1960
1673 A. Behn Dutch Lover iii. ii. 43 Do you remember..when instead of a Periwig, you wore a slink, greasie hair of your own.
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. xiv. 305 It was a slink beast, and wad hae eaten its head aff, standing at Luckie Flyter's at livery.
1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 361 Slink, lank, slender; combined with awkwardness.
1889 Cent. Dict. at Mackerel Slink mackerel, a poor thin mackerel taken among schools of fat ones in the fall of the year.
1892 W. Ewing Poems & Songs 16 Their coachman freen', leen, slink and lang.
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slinkadj.2
Slinking, furtive, submissive.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > [adjective]
privyc1230
thiefly1395
stalkinga1400
slyc1440
insidious1545
clanculary1563
hedge-creeping1579
thievish1587
sneaking1590
tiptoe1593
peaking1595
underworking1605
stealthya1616
subtlea1616
surreptitious?1615
clancular1621
stealthful?1624
insidiary1625
worming1631
subterranean1643
clancularious1656
hugger-mugger1692
slink1792
slinking1841
instealing1844
thief-like1847
furtive1859
society > authority > subjection > obedience > submissiveness > [adjective] > in unfavourable sense
meekc1325
tame1563
slavish1565
slink1792
1792 J. Wolcot Ode to Ld. Lonsdale in Wks. (1812) III. 45 Juries before the Judges won't look slink. No, No; they fancy they've a right to think.
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slinkv.
/slɪŋk/, U.S. /slɪŋk/ 1. † c. To skulk, hide oneself. Obsolete. rare.
a. intransitive. Of persons or animals: To move, go, walk, etc. in a quiet, stealthy, or sneaking manner. Usually const. with prepositions and adverbs.For Old English examples, in the sense ‘to creep or crawl’, see Bosworth-Toller, at Slincan.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > softly or stealthily
stalkc1300
slinkc1374
soft-shoe1913
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > stealthy movement > move stealthily [verb (intransitive)]
besteala725
snikec897
steal1154
creepc1175
skulk?c1225
snaker?c1225
stalkc1300
slenchc1330
lurka1375
slinkc1374
snokec1380
slide1382
slipc1400
mitchera1575
sneak1598
snake1818
sly1825
snoop1832
to steal one's way1847
sniggle1881
gumshoe1897
slime1898
pussyfoot1902
soft-foot1913
cat-foot1916
pussy1919
pussa1953
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > go or come in [verb (intransitive)] > surreptitiously or subtly
to steal (some one or something) ina1555
shuffle1565
slink1567
to come in at (also by) the window1590
insinuate1600
wimble1605
screw1614
sneak1680
oil1925
α.
β. 1557 Dialoge of Comfort (new ed.) i. xviii, in Wks. Sir T. More 1162/2 Then left them their gameners and slily slonke awaye.1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxxiii. 621 When a Plague was begun [Apollonius] gaue warning of it: and when it grewe strong, he sloonke away.1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xliv. xlv. 1199 The Thracians durst not goe abourd.., but slunke every man away to his own home.1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 602 For Beast and Bird, They to thir grassie Couch, these to thir Nests Were slunk . View more context for this quotation1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 43 Will. Jones slunk in among the rest.1786 H. More Florio 24 The din alarm'd the frighten'd deer, Who in a corner slunk for fear.1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. ii. 28 He slunk from college by the most secret paths he could discover.1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island iv. xxi. 166 We all slunk back to our places.γ. 1656 S. Holland Don Zara iii. v. 198 The Champion therefore, having imbraced Soto,..slank down into his bed the second time.1826 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. (ed. 2) I. iv. 82 There were some few who slank obliquely from them as they passed.1856 ‘C. Bede’ Tales College Life 155 Wall-time came, and I slank across the Quad. for my dinner.1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul II. ix. xxxvi. 145 The false brethren secretly introduced, who slank in to spy out our liberty.c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iii. 1535 He softe into his bed gan for to slynke To slepe longe.
1448 J. Gloys in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 28 He slenkyd be-hynd and toke his master on the hepe suyche a stroke that..brake his hepe.
c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 3334 Som of ȝew shall be riȝt feyn to sclynk a-wey & hyde.
1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 105 She..commeth againe steeling and slinketh into his companie.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 7 Antenor was habil, from Grekish coompanye slincking, Too passe through Greceland.
1624 J. Gee Foot out of Snare iii. 22 The poor husband is fain to slink away hungry to his rest.
1673 J. Flavell Fountain of Life xxiii. 300 The wretch slinked away from him into the City.
1735 W. Somervile Chace iii. 184 The wily Fox..slinks behind And slily creeps thro' the same beaten Track.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair xlix. 436 A withered, old, lean man..slinking about Gray's Inn of mornings chiefly, and dining alone at clubs.
1857 C. Dickens Let. 2 Sept. (1995) VIII. 427 I think I should slink into a corner and cry.
1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. vii. xxvi. 517 He had to slink into Thessalonica incognito, and by night.
b. transferred or figurative in various contexts.An Old English example occurs in Be Domes Dæge 240.
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1533 T. More Debellacyon Salem & Bizance ii. xv. f. iiiv To hyde the trouth out of syght, [and] slynke into lurkys lane.
1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge i. v. sig. C2v Whom fretful gaules of chance..Makes not his reason slinke.
1657 R. Austen Spirituall Use of Orchard (new ed.) 104 Being by Christ told what to do more, he slinks back from Christ.
1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 139 When Brass and Pewter hap to stray, And Linnen slinks out of the way.
1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. vi. 123 Seeing the sun quietly slink behind a mass of black clouds.
1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk (1869) 2nd Ser. vi. 136 I should not be pleased to see him slink out of his acknowledged opinion.
1858 J. G. Holland Titcomb's Lett. viii. 241 Temptations that..slink from him without attack.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > lurking, skulking > lurk, skulk [verb (intransitive)]
loutc825
atlutienc1000
darec1000
lotea1200
skulk?c1225
lurkc1300
luskc1330
tapisc1330
lurchc1420
filsnec1440
lour?c1450
slink?c1550
mitch1558
jouk1575
scout1577
scult1622
meecha1625
tappy1706
slive1707
slinge1747
snake1818
cavern1860
?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Eng. Hist. (1846) I. 71 Catus Decianus..slinkinge in the middest of this feare, passed into Fraunce.
2. transitive.† c. To hang (the head). Obsolete. rare.
a. To draw quietly; to slip. rare.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out of [verb (transitive)] > slip out of
slink1626
1626 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1624–9 (1909) 137 Perceiveing the President..more forward then himself, upon faire and equall tearmes which cutt off his advantagious devices, he slonk his head out of the coller, and so the project dying [etc.].
b. To avoid, shirk, evade. rare.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from (action) [verb (transitive)] > avoid or shun > a problem or difficulty
hipc1440
illude1553
to give (a person or thing) the go-by1654
slink1658
jump1844
sidestep1899
burke1921
duck1928
bypass1941
1658 G. Starkey Natures Explic. Ep. to Rdr. sig. b8v If I slink the proof of experiment, let me be reputed what they please.
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the world > space > relative position > posture > position of specific body parts > position specific body part [verb (transitive)] > head, face, or eyes
warpc1175
lout1297
to smite downa1350
to cast downc1374
embowc1440
droop1582
vail1586
upturn1667
slink1683
poke1852
1683 J. Dryden & N. Lee Duke of Guise iii. i. 21 Yet Spight of all this Factor of the Fiends Cou'd urge, they slunk their Heads like Hinds in Storms.
d. To withdraw from. rare.
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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > reverse or abandon one's purpose or intention [verb (transitive)] > withdraw from an engagement or promise
runOE
withdraw1340
waivec1386
to pass from (also of, fro)c1449
recoil1481
to go back1530
recant1585
resile1641
shirk1778
renegea1849
slink1853
welsh1870
to throw over1891
1853 J. G. Baldwin Flush Times Alabama & Mississippi 26 Many a witness..‘slunk his pitch mightily’ when old Kasm put him through on the cross-examination.
e. To turn (the eyes) round in a stealthy or slinking manner. rare.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > accomplish clandestinely [verb (transitive)] > direct look or sigh
steala1586
slink1923
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [verb (transitive)] > move eyes
rollc1425
roilc1450
wallc1500
wafta1616
slink1923
1923 J. Galsworthy Captures 162 Leaning down to our scoundrel and slinking her eyes round at the Countess, she murmured something malicious.
3. figurative.a1658 J. Cleveland Char. Diurnall-maker (1677) 104 He is the Embryo of a History slink'd before Maturity.absolute.a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 282 To let a cow keep company with other cows, after she has slunk her calf, will be apt to make some of the others slink also.1886 Field 16 Jan. 86/2 Swedes have not proved a cheap food when ewes in lamb have ‘slinked’ after living on them.1889 Chambers's Encycl. IV. 401/1 This species [Epilobium angustifolium] with several others is common in North America, where it is sometimes called..slink-weed, from a belief that it causes cows to ‘slink’ or miscarry.† b. With away: To reduce by miscarriage.
a. Of animals, esp. cows: To bear or bring forth (young) prematurely or abortively. Cf. cast v. 21, and sling v.1 2c.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [verb (transitive)] > give birth to > bear prematurely
slink1640
slip1665
warpa1722
pick1777
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > cow > [verb (transitive)] > give birth prematurely
slink1640
1640 J. Gower tr. Ovid Festivalls iv. 91 Beasts slunk their young with most untimely throws.
1721 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husb. II. 222 To prevent a Mare's slinking her Foal.
1794 G. Washington Writings (1892) XIII. 15 I was told..that almost all the mares had slunk their foals.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 438 Over exertion in walking..may..make her slip calf,—or to slink the calf, as it is usually termed.
1886 Field 13 Feb. 205/3 Sometimes all cows in a dairy slink their calves.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of pregnancy or birth > cause pregnancy or birth disorder [verb (transitive)] > reduce by miscarriage
slink1664
1664 S. Pepys Diary 17 Aug. (1971) V. 245 Lady Castlemayne, who he believes hath lately slunk a great belly away.
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