Shink
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Shink is a verb meaning To pour or serve wine or beer; to skink.
Meaning
To pour or serve wine or beer; to skink.
More Meanings
- The sound of something metal, such as a blade, sliding (along other metal, along a whetstone, etc).
- (of metal) To slide with the shink sound of metal sliding.
Example Sentences
Shink...Shink! The sword is drawn across the stone. The right angle, the right speed, and the right amount times ... blade from becoming dull, but.
The men-at-arms knocked their visors down with the edges of their shields, a multiple metallic shink-shink sound, transformed from men to steel figures[…]
SHINK. SHINK. My sword blade slid smoothly against the whetstone. I lifted the blade and tested the sharpness before dripping more water on the stone and repeating the motions.
The shink of a blade drawn from its scabbard rent the air. The dim light of a wall torch flashed upon the steel. With a lunge in tierce, Riccoboni slashed at the small man by his side. Pasquale groped clumsily at his waist for his own sword[…]
Word Forms
- shinks
- shinking
- shinked
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include skink, sink, kipper, skittle, swizzle, sipple.
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