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Quotation dates: 1904
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SUNK, n.2 What has been sunk; .specif.: 1. a draw-well. Cf. Sink. [sʌŋk] Nai. 1794 Stat. Acc.1 XII. 390: A sunk, or draw-well for the use of the castle.
2. a crab- or lobster-trap, esp. one made of sparred flooring and half-hoops covered with netting and sunk in the water with heavy stones (Ags. 1971).Ags. 1904 J. M. Campbell Notes on Bell Rock 11:
A return of four lobsters for the hauling of fifty " sunks."
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