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Slank

//slæŋk// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A depression, a low place in the ground, especially one at the side of a river, lake, or cove which is filled with water during freshet(s). UK, US, dialectal

    "[…] The board of health had prohibited the sale of ice cut from the "slank," because water in the "slank" was said to be polluted. The ice dealers, however, contend that the city of Patterson has no right to pollute the river and thus hurt their business, […] stopping the sale of "slank" ice, […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of slink form-of, participle, past, rare

    "a. 1913 (published 1934), Frederick William Rolfe, The desire and pursuit of the whole So, when priests slank up to him, he civilly warned them off: if they merited kindness and persisted, he gave them double […]"

Etymology

Compare dialectal slonk (“depression, hollow, slough”), slunk (“slough, hollow; mud”).

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