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zinke

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small cornet of wood or horn, once very common in Germany.
  • noun In organ-building, a loud reed-stop. Also cornet.

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Examples

  • I know this one in Dutch, from wedding parties: we zulle drinke drinke drinke tottewe zinke zinke zinke we shall drink, drink, drink untill we sink sink, sink

    Lily the Pink Donna Lethal 2010

  • German zinke, an obsolete, cupped mouthpiece instrument, the real bass of which, according to family, is the now obsolete serpent, was used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as the treble instrument in combination with alto, tenor, and bass trombones.

    Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 Various

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rhymes (37)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Chink
  2. Fink
  3. Inc
  4. Inc.
  5. bink
  6. blink
  7. brink
  8. chink
  9. cinque
  10. clink
  11. dink
  12. drink
  13. fink
  14. flink
  15. hink
  16. inc
  17. inc.
  18. ink
  19. interlink
  20. linc
  21. link
  22. mink
  23. minke
  24. pink
  25. plink
  26. rethink
  27. rink
  28. shrink
  29. sink
  30. spink
  31. stink
  32. swink
  33. sync
  34. think
  35. wink
  36. zinc
  37. zink

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