Obs. Also 7 sincaunter, sinkanter, cinque-cater, cinque-and-quater, 8 cincater, cinquater. [app. f. F. cinquante fifty: but in certain uses, it seems to have been associated with cinque at dice.]
1. A man of fifty; an old stager.
1611. Cotgr., Rocard, a hoarse mouldichaps, an ouerworne sincaunter, one that can neither whinnie, nor wag the taile.
a. 1624. Bp. M. Smith, Serm. (1632), 158. This is a very pleasing speech to some old Cinque-Caters.
1675. Cotton, Burlesque upon B., 32 (D.). Take pity prethee, Upon a poor old Cinque and Quater, Had paid for playing the Creator.
1721–1800. Bailey, Cincater, Cinquater, a Man aged Fifty Years.
2. (See quot.)
1617. Collins, Def. Bp. Ely, II. x. 410. He would coniure you into a boote, or into a bench-hole for your labour, like a sawcy Sinckanter.
a. 1640. Jackson, Creed, X. xix. Wks. IX. 115. One Volanerius an old sinkanter, or gamester and scurrilous companion by profession.
