skink

Definitions

1. A shin of beef.
   Northern-England, Scotland
2. A lizard of the family Scincidae, having small or reduced limbs or none at all and long tails that are regenerated when shed; a sandfish.
3. A drink.
   obsolete
4. A soup or pottage made from a boiled shin of beef.
   Scotland, obsolete
5. Usually preceded by a descriptive word: a soup or pottage made using other ingredients.
   Scotland, broadly

Equivalents

Examples

“lean⟳ sirloin, skink and pot-roast”

“For there are in the Flesh , Bones , Skinnes , organs , and the severall limbes of the living body : such spirits as are in the Flesh , Bone , and Skinke , beeing separated”

“Cullen skink”

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