Also 8 kenk. [prob. a. Du. kinken (Hexham), f. kink KINK sb.1]
1. intr. To form a kink; to twist or curl stiffly, esp. at one point, so as to catch or get entangled: said of a rope or the like.
1697. Dampier, Voy., I. II. 17. The Line in drawing after him chanc’d to kink, or grow entangled.
1787. Best, Angling (ed. 2), 48. Always have one, or more swivels on the line, which will prevent its kenking.
1867. F. Francis, Angling, iv. (1880), 107. The running line snarls, and kinks.
1891. H. L. Webb, in Electr. in Daily Life, Making a Cable, 193. Occasionally a sounding was spoiled by the wire kinking.
2. trans. To cause to kink; to form a kink upon; to twist stiffly. Also fig. (Usually in passive.)
1800. T. Jefferson, Writ. (1859), IV. 346. The arguments he produces are such as none but a head, entangled and kinked as his is, would ever have urged.
1886. J. M. Caulfeild, Seamanship Notes, 4. Cable is full of turns and kinked.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., III. 651. The shortened bowel may be kinked or twisted.
Hence Kinked ppl. a., Kinking vbl. sb.2 and ppl. a.2; also Kinkable a., liable to kink.
1794. Rigging & Seamanship, 55. Kinking, the twisting or curling of a rope, by being twisted too hard.
c. 1865. J. Wylde, in Circ. Sc., I. 250/2. That there may be no loose or ‘kinked’ places.
1891. Daily News, 24 June, 7/5. Garden hose … non-kinkable hose is preferred.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., III. 489. Pyloric kinking may occur with rapid aggravation of the state.
