A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1456-1621, 1681
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Bink, n. Also: binke, bynk(e. [Northern ME. bynk(e, binc (14th c.), later form of Benk n.] A bench for sitting on.See also hall-bink, veschel-bink.1456 Hay II. 143/30.
Efter the … bathing, men suld sytt on faire bynkis on thair herberis 1487 Brus vii. 238 (C).
He com soyn in the hous, and fand The gud vif on the bynk [E. benk] sytand a1500 Henr. III. 170/8.
Sen want of wyse men makis fulis to sit on binkis a1500 Golagros and Gawane 204.
Than thay buskit to the bynke, beirnis of the best a1508 Kennedy Flyting 289.
Na fowlis of effect amangis tha binkis Biggis, nor abydis 1527 Acts Lords of Council MS. XXXVIII. 64.
At nane … abon the nowmir of viii or ix persons … be permittit to sit on the lang bynk 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 137/22.
Than in he come, and sat doun on ane bink, Befoir the fire 1560 Edinb. B. Rec. III. 97.
Be the resort of pepill and barnys to the kirk, the bynkis and saittis ar fylit be the saidis bairnyis 1574 Davidson in Three Reformers 121.
Abundance baith of meat and drinke, To man and boy at burde and binke 1586 St. A. Test. II. 56 b.
Ane awld bink of fir price xj s. 1603 Philotus xvii.
His wyfe may ay sit formest doun, At eyther burde or bink 1621 Edinburgh Testaments LI. 63.
Sevin staine binkis at tua schillingis the pece 1681 Colvil Whig's Suppl. i. 64.
The good-man keeps it, as we think, Behind a dish, upon the bink
