Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
windock .
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Examples
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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