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  • verb Present participle of zinc.

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Examples

  • Think for yourselves, people...before someone else does your zinking for you....

    Althouse on the road. Ann Althouse 2009

  • I’d sooner ge my esteate to the zinking fund, that it may be sent to Hanover to corrupt our nation with.

    X. In Which Mr. Western Visits Mr. Allworthy. Book VI 1917

  • ” He will have the surgeon’s heart’s blood if he takes a drop too much from Sophia’s white arm; when she opposes his wishes as to Blifil, he will turn her into the street with no more than a smock, and give his estate to the “zinking Fund.

    Criticisms and Interpretations. III. By Austin Dobson 1917

  • He will have the surgeon's heart's blood if he takes a drop too much from Sophia's white arm; when she opposes his wishes as to Blifil, he will turn her into the street with no more than a smock, and give his estate to the "_zinking_ Fund."

    Fielding Austin Dobson 1880

  • I'd sooner ge my esteate to the zinking fund, that it may be sent to

    History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Henry Fielding 1730

  • Both Mitch and JRoosh are involved in za fantasy zinking.

    the Cucking Stool 2008

  • I’d sooner ge my esteate to the zinking fund, that it may be sent to Hanover to corrupt our nation with.”

    The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

  • He will have the surgeon’s heart’s blood if he takes a drop too much from Sophia’s white arm; when she opposes his wishes as to Blifil, he will turn her into the street with no more than a smock, and give his estate to the “zinking Fund.”

    Fielding 1843

  • He will have the surgeon’s heart’s blood if he takes a drop too much from Sophia’s white arm; when she opposes his wishes as to Blifil, he will turn her into the street with no more than a smock, and give his estate to the “zinking Fund.”

    Fielding 1843

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