Meaning

(Scotland, Northern England) A shin of beef..

Definitions by Sense

1. (Scotland, Northern England) A shin of beef.
2. (chiefly Scotland, obsolete) A soup or pottage made from a boiled shin of beef.
3. (chiefly Scotland, by extension) Usually preceded by a descriptive word: a soup or pottage made using other ingredients.
4. A lizard of the family Scincidae, having small or reduced limbs or none at all and long tails that are regenerated when shed; a sandfish.
5. (ambitransitive, Scotland) To serve (a drink).
6. (transitive, Scotland, Northern England, obsolete) To give (something) as a present.
7. (obsolete) A drink.

Example Sentences

lean sirloin, skink and pot-roast

For there are in the Flesh , Bones , Skinnes , organs , and the severall limbes of the living body : such spirits as are in the Flesh , Bone , and Skinke , beeing separated

Cullen skink

Such wine as Ganymede doth skink to Jove, / When he invites the gods to feast with him / On Juno's wedding-day.

[W]hile he would spit beyond the table, he all-to-bespawleth him who skinketh at the feast.

Word Forms

• skinks
• skinking
• skinked

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