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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See windock.

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Examples

  • Then, in the "winnock cupboard" at the turn of the stair-head, were all the necessaries for a noble blaze -- dry wood properly cut, tow, tar, and a firkin of spirit, with some rancid butter in a brown jar.

    The Dew of Their Youth 1887

  • The whilk, no doobt, represents a body that hings aboot yer winnock, like a drap hangin 'ower abune it frae the eaves -- therefore called an eaves drapper.

    Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

  • The snaw was driftin 'a wee aboot the bit winnock, an' his auld een was fixed upo't; an 'a' 'at he said, takin' no notice

    David Elginbrod George MacDonald 1864

  • Cuddie, resting upon the but of his gun, and looking up at this window, observed to one of his companions, -- "There's a place I ken weel; mony a time I hae helped Jenny Dennison out o 'the winnock, forby creeping in whiles mysell to get some daffin, at e'en after the pleugh was loosed."

    Old Mortality, Volume 2. Walter Scott 1801

  • Cuddie, resting upon the but of his gun, and looking up at this window, observed to one of his companions, -- "There's a place I ken weel; mony a time I hae helped Jenny Dennison out o 'the winnock, forby creeping in whiles mysell to get some daffin, at e'en after the pleugh was loosed."

    Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • A winnock-bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o 'beast; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge: He scre'd the pipes and gart them skirl,

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

  • A winnock-bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o 'beast; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge: He scre'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl.

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

  • A winnock-bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o 'beast; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge: He scre'd the pipes and gart them skirl,

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

  • A winnock-bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o 'beast; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge: He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl.

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

  • A winnock-bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o 'beast; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge: He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl.

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

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