Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A trick or fancy.
- noun A kind of fishing-net.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A kind of fishing net.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A kind of
fishing net .
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Examples
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You mos not trink it so strongyou mos put de water in te wine.
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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Here, trink dis, like a goot veller, und don't gry nowdon't!
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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I love the photo of the log over the river - the contrast of that white trink and the deep blue water is lovely!
Scenic Sunday: River Walk floreta 2009
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Let me fore all your hasitancy cross your qualm with trink gilt.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Your sows tin the topple, dodgers, trink me dregs!
Finnegans Wake 2006
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I set to ze table, trink my glass of pranty, smoke my pipe, ant look at Papa,
Boyhood 2003
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I says, ‘Might I trink one glass of pranty?’ ant she says, ‘Vater, here is a yong man who wish to trink one glass of pranty.’
Boyhood 2003
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Uberrock, who trink coffee, fumigate the pipe, ant says nosing.
Boyhood 2003
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Mateira ant we trink it out to ze last trop, I taket his hant ant says, ‘Mister Sergeant, perhaps you have still one Vater and one Mutter?’
Boyhood 2003
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But the great devil did envy it, and by that means put the High Dutches far behind, who played the devils in swilling down and tippling at the good liquor, trink, mein herr, trink, trink, by two of my table-men in the corner-point I have gained the lurch.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
hagendas commented on the word trink
n. A kind of fishing net. Obs. Crabb. from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
January 13, 2009
ruzuzu commented on the word trink
Compare trench and tranche.
November 18, 2021
bilby commented on the word trink
Ich will ein fishing-net mit ruzuzu trinken!
November 18, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word trink
It did occur to me to wonder whether trink and drink were related.
There's an old klezmer song called "Skrip, klezmerl, skripe" where an uncle sings "kh’vel trinken vi a fish/ un vel tantsn bay der khupe," which is translated as "Now I will drink like a fish/ and dance by the wedding canopy," (See here: https://www.milkenarchive.org/music/volumes/view/great-songs-of-the-american-yiddish-stage/work/skrip-klezmerl-skripe/).
But, also, do folks still get thrown "into the drink"? And could we then use a trink to rescue them?
November 19, 2021