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Skinking

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.
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