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skinked


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Skink  \Skink\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Skinked};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Skinking}.]  [Icel.  skenja  akin  to  Sw  sk["a]ka,  Dan. 
  skienke  AS  scencan  D.  &  G.  schenken  As  scencan  is 
  usually  derived  from  sceonc  sceanc  shank,  a  hollow  bone 
  being  supposed  to  have  been  used  to  draw  off  liquor  from  a 
  cask.  [root]161.  See  {Shank},  and  cf  {Nunchion}.] 
  To  draw  or  serve,  as  drink.  [Obs.] 
 
  Bacchus  the  wine  them  skinketh  all  about  --Chaucer. 
 
  Such  wine  as  Ganymede  doth  skink  to  Jove.  --Shirley.