binkSc.and north.dial.|bɪŋk|Forms: 3 bennk, 3– benk(e, 3–4 binc, binck, 4 bengk, bynk, 5 bynke, 4– bink.[Later form ofME.benk=benchn.]1.A bench or form to sit on;=bench 1.c1200Ormin 15231Wiþþ þrinne bennkess bennkedd.
a1300Cursor M. 5321He kist and sett on binc him bi[Gött. binck, Fairf. benk, Trin. benche].
1375BarbourBruce vii. 238The gud vif on the bynk sytand.
c1440YorkMyst.xxvi. 188,I schall buske to þe benke.
a1548Thrie Priests Peblis 24 (Jam.)Hal binks ar ay slidder.
1603Philotus xvii,His wyfe may ay sit formest doun, At eyther burde or bink.
1855WhitbyGloss.s.v.,The summer binks, a benched alcove or summer-house in a garden.
2.A seat of justice;=bench 2.1330R. BrunneChron.58At London at þe benke schewe þer þin askyng.
c1460TowneleyMyst.317When ye were set as syres on bynke.
1862HislopProv.Scot.63For faut o' wise men fools sit on binks.
3.A shelf; particularly, a long flat slab of stone fixed to a wall, used either as a seat or as a shelf; also, a plate-rack; a dresser.1535Richmond. Wills (1853) 12A cobbord with a dysbynk.
1657S. ColvilWhigsSupplic.(1751) 67The Good-man keeps it, as we think, Behind a dish, upon the bink.
1816ScottAntiq.xxvi,Ony thing..frae the roof-tree down to a crackit trencher on the bink.
1818―Hrt. Midl. xiv,Nor the bowies put up on the bink.
1864AtkinsonWhitbyGloss.,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.
4.A bank (of earth);=bench 6.c1500DunbarFlyting 289Na fowlis..amangis tha binkis Biggis, nor abydis.
1807J. HeadrickArran 153On putting down a bore in moss binks, water spouted up.
5.=bench 7, bankn.1 7.1679PlotStaffordsh.(1686) 136A Workman in another Bink hard by fear'd the roof would have fallen in.
1797J. CurrCoal Viewer 15The long way of working collieries, where the roads along the benk faces are narrow.
1940Chambers'sTechn.Dict.87/1Benk, the place underground where coal is being broken from the face of the coal seam.
†6.=bing, in sense of bin. Obs.1534Eng.Ch.Furniture 190A bynke to ley colis in.
¶In south of Scotland=bike, wasps' nest.
