Sc. Forms: 5 wyndok, 6 vynd-, windok, vind-, wyndak, vindock, wink (7 windick, 9 windock), 6– winnock. [Sc. development of windoȝe, WINDOW sb.; cf. elbock for *elboȝe, ELBOW sb., and WARLOCK. Cf. Gael. uinneag, Ir. fuinneog.] A window.

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1492.  Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., I. 200. Gevin … for Estland burdis to durris and wyndokis … v li.

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1535.  Stewart, Cron. Scot. (Rolls), III. 477. To ane windok of the presoun scho ȝeid.

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1582.  in Campbell, Church of Kirkaldy, vii. (1904), 63. Yat William Crosby mak ye kirk and glaissen winkes clean ilk Setterday.

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1596.  Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot. (S.T.S.), II. 436. A gret cannoun Bullat … cam in at the Kirk winnock.

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1682.  Rec. Burgh Lanark (1893), 210. That furthwith ther be ports provydit for four ports … with windicks.

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c. 1730.  Ramsay, To Æolus, 6. To fuff at winnocks and cry ‘Wow!’

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1816.  Scott, Old Mort., xxv. Mony a time I hae helped Jenny Dennison out o’ the winnock.

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1819.  W. Tennant, Papistry Storm’d (1827), 132. The windocks scarce wi’ beams did lauff, Whan bangit up Sir Tullidaff.

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  b.  attrib., as winnock-bunker [BUNKER 1], -nail, -pane, -sole (= WINDOW-SOLE); winnock-bred, -brod [BRED sb., BROD sb.2], a window-shutter.

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1513.  Rentale Dunkeldense (S.H.S., 1915), 281. 60 lie windok naile.

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1546.  Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., VIII. 453. For glew to the wyndak breddis.

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1790.  A. Wilson, 2nd Ep. to Jas. Kennedy, Poet. Wks. (1846), 118. And Natures’ winnock-brods are closin’ Across the lift.

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1790.  Burns, Tam o’ Shanter, 119. A winnock-bunker in the east.

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1896.  Crockett, Grey Man, i. 10. Put the Bible for a keepsake in your winnock sole.

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