Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete spelling of
sink .
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Examples
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Todays plan is to finnish the last cabinet – put on countertops and get the sinck and water going…
Even kittehs support - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Cox, which ketch I was intended for to burne or to sinck, but after severall Considerations I doe give the same ketch and all that belongs unto her freely and liberaly unto the honorable Capt.
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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Page lacking a skilfull master, most commonlie, doth either, sinck it selfe vpon sandes, or breake it selfe vpon rockes.
The Scholemaster 1870
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All I need is a half dozen Beyonce commercials and I can relax and sinck into the mediocrity that is a Fox Soccer Channel broadcast.
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1439: Hee'le drop his heart into the sinck of feare,
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206 _The first booke teachyng_ lacking a skilfull master, most commonlie, doth either, sinck it selfe vpon sandes, or breake it selfe vpon rockes.
The Schoolmaster Roger Ascham 1541
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