| 单词 |
hink |
| 释义 |
▪ I. † hink, n.1 Sc. Obs.
[prob. from hink v.
Some would identify it with OE. inca doubt, question, scruple. But the prefixing of a non-etymological h is against Scottish practice.]
Faltering, hesitation, misgiving.
c1614J. Melvill Autobiog. (1842) 423 But the doing of it..was a grait hink in my hart, and wrought sear remorse. 1668M. Bruce Serm. in Kirkton's Hist. Ch. Scot. vii. (1817) 273, I have ay a hink in my heart about the Covenant. 1678Hist. Indulgence Ep. in G. Hickes Spirit of Popery (1680) 74 They can..hold up their face, and affirm, without hinck or hesitation, that [etc.]. 1709M. Bruce Soul-Confirm. 8 (Jam.) He comes to..a full assurance that he can say, We are sure we have not a hink in our hearts about it.
▪ II. † hink, n.2 Obs. local.
See quots.
1744–50W. Ellis Mod. Husbandm. IV. iii. 42 Here [Sandwich, Kent] they cut their drilled field-pease with what they call Hooks and Hincks. 1887Kent Gloss., Hink, a hook at the end of a stick, used for drawing and lifting back the peas, whilst they were being cut with the pea-hook. The pea-hook and hink always went together.
▪ III. † hink, v. Sc. Obs.
[perh. a. ONorse hinka to limp, hobble: cf. MHG., MLG., MDu. hinken to limp, halt.]
intr. ? To halt; to falter.
c1450Henryson in Bannatyne MS. 133 (Jam.) Thy helth sall hynk, and tak a hurt but hone. 1697Cleland Poems 105 (Jam.) Any that saw his strange deport, Perceiv'd his maw to hink and jarr. |
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