Obs. [f. BLINK v. 1, and like it in ME. only in Robert of Brunne, for the BLENK, BLENCH of his contemporaries.]
1. A trick, stratagem; = BLENCH, BLENK, sb. 1.
1303. R. Brunne, Handl. Synne, 4185. He shal þynke or to do þe a wykkede blynke.
2. pl. Boughs thrown to turn aside deer from their course; also, feathers, etc., on a thread to scare birds. Cf. BLENCHER.
1611. Cotgr., Brisees, boughes … left in the view of a deere, or cast ouerthwart the way to hinder his running … Our wood-men call them, Blinkes.
1611. Markham, Countr. Content., I. xi. (1668), 59. They are like blinks, which will ever chase your game from you. Ibid. (1625), Farew. Husb., 96. The nearer that these Blinkes … come to the ground … the better it is, lest the fowle finding a way to creep vnder them, begin not to respect them.
