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Webster 1913 Edition

Kink

Kink

,
Noun.
[D.
kink
a bend or turn, or Sw.
kink
.]
1.
A twist or loop in a rope or thread, caused by a spontaneous doubling or winding upon itself; a close loop or curl; a doubling in a cord.
2.
An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
[Colloq.]
Cozzens.

Kink

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Kinked
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Kinking
.]
To wind into a kink; to knot or twist spontaneously upon itself, as a rope or thread.

Kink

,
Noun.
[Cf.
Chincough
,
Kink-haust
.]
A fit of coughing; also, a convulsive fit of laughter.
[Scot.]

Webster 1828 Edition

Kink

KINK

,
Noun.
[L. cingo.] The twist of a rope or thread, occasioned by a spontaneous winding of the rope or thread when doubled, that is, by an effort of hard twisted ropes or threads to untwist, they wind about each other.

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