Bink

Sc. and north. dial. Forms: 3 bennk, 3–5 benk(e, 3–4 binc, binck, 4 bengk, bynk, 5 bynke, 4– bink. [Later form of ME. benk = BENCH sb.]

  1.  A bench or form to sit on; = BENCH 1.

c. 1200.  Ormin, 15231. Wiþþ þrinne bennkess benkedd.

a. 1300.  Cursor M., 5321. He kist and sett on binc him bi [Gött. binck, Fairf. benk, Trin. benche].

1375.  Barbour, Bruce, VII. 238. The gud vif on the bynk sytand.

c. 1440.  York Myst., XXVI. 188. I schall buske to þe benke.

a. 1548.  Thrie Priests Peblis, 24 (Jam.). Hal binks ar ay slidder.

1603.  Philotus, xvii. His wyfe may ay sit formest doun, At eyther burde or bink.

1855.  Whitby Gloss., s.v., The summer binks, a benched alcove or summer-house in a garden.

  2.  A seat of justice; = BENCH 2.

c. 1330.  R. Brunne, Chron., 58. At London at þe benke schewe þer þin askyng.

c. 1460.  Towneley Myst., 317. When ye were set as syres on bynke.

1862.  Hislop, Prov. Scot., 63. For faut o’ wise men fools sit on binks.

  3.  A shelf; particularly, a long flat slab of stone fixed to a wall, used either as a seat or as a shelf; also, a plate-rack; a dresser.

1535.  Richmond Wills (1853), 12. A cobbord with a dysbynk.

1657.  Colvil, Whigs Supplic. (1751), 67. The Good-man keeps it, as we think, Behind a dish, upon the bink.

1816.  Scott, Antiq., xxvi. Ony thing … frae the roof-tree down to a crackit trencher on the bink. Ibid. (1818), Hrt. Midl., xiv. Nor the bowies put up on the bink.

1864.  Atkinson, Whitby Gloss., Bink, a bench. Upon those of stone at cottage doors, the fresh scoured milkpails and other dairy utensils are oft seen placed to dry and sweeten.

  4.  A bank (of earth); = BENCH 6.

c. 1500.  Dunbar, Flyting, 289. Na fowlis … amangis thn binkis Biggis, nor abydis.

1807.  Headrick, Arran, 153. On putting down a bore in moss binks, water spouted up.

  5.  BENCH 7, BANK sb.¹ 7.

1679.  Plot, Staffordsh. (1686), 136. A Workman in another Bink hard by fear’d the roof would have fallen in.

  † 6.  = BING, in sense of BIN. Obs.

1534.  Eng. Ch. Furniture, 190. A bynke to ley colis in.

  ¶ In south of Scotland = BIKE, wasps’ nest.