Dictionary entry

Skink (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Skink, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Skinked (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Skinking.] [Icel. skenja; akin to Sw. skäka, Dan. skienke, AS. scencan, D. & G. schenken. As. scencan is usually derived from sceonc, sceanc, shank, a hollow bone being supposed to have been used to draw off liquor from a cask. √161. See Shank, and cf. Nunchion.] To draw or serve, as drink.

Bacchus the wine them skinketh all about. Chaucer.

Such wine as Ganymede doth skink to Jove. Shirley.