A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1471, 1557-1692
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Pink, Pinck(e, n.1 Also: pinke, pynk; penk. [MDu. pincke, pinke a small sea-going ship, also a fishing-boat (1477–8 in Verw. & Verdam), MLG. pinke, e.m.E. pyncke (1545).] A pink, the sailing-vessel. Also comb. with -bote, id.Orig. a small boat ‘used for coasting and fishing, described as flat-bottomed and having bulging sides’; later, larger in size and characterized by a narrow stern.(1) 1471 Acts II. 100/2.
That certain lordis … & burowis ger mak or get schippis buschis & vther gret pynk botis witht nettis & al abilȝementis ganing tharfor for fysching 1557 Admir. Ct. Bk. (St. S.) 31.
Ane litill pynk ladin with certane ry … and vj Inglis men in hir 1570 Leslie 257.
Thair come ane gret ship and with hir a pink furth of Muscovia bowin toward Ingland 1570-3 Bann. Trans. 35.
Pincke 1582 Dundee Shipping L. 207.
Clerk of the litell pink 1651 Mercurius Scoticus in Scotland and the Commonwealth 318.
Two prizes … the one was a Dutch pinke 1692 Misc. B. Rec. 83.
Ane Holland pinck(b) 1648–9 Aberd. Shore Wk. Acc. 314.
From ane emptie penk belonging to Zealand for her anckeradge(2) a1578 Pitsc. II. 236/22.
Ane pink of Flanderis 1610 Criminal Trials III. 100.
Ane pink of Dunkirk
b. Applied to a small sailing-boat of antiquity. —1642 The Scots Scouts Discovered 17.
A pinke was dispatcht to Apolloes oracle
