slank
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Is slank a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (rare) simple past and past participle of slinkExamples: "a. 1913 (published 1934), Frederick William Rolfe, The desire and pursuit of the whole So, when priests slank up to him, he civilly warned them off: if they merited kindness and persisted, he gave them double […]"form-ofparticiplepastrare
noun (English)
1. (US and UK, dialectal) A depression, a low place in the ground, especially one at the side of a river, lake, or cove which is filled with water during freshet(s).Examples: "[…] The board of health had prohibited the sale of ice cut from the "slank," because water in the "slank" was said to be polluted. The ice dealers, however, contend that the city of Patterson has no right to pollute the river and thus hurt their business, […] stopping the sale of "slank" ice, […]"; "Van Zaun says that the fishing stopped 15 or 16 years before he testified - that would be about 1890. Mr. Shriner, one of the city's witnesses, says that he caught fish in one of the slanks in 1883 or 1885."; "Passaic, N. J. - The storm will cause great delay in filling in the slank. The dirt which the workmen have been throwing in was washed away into the river."UKUSdialectal
Definition source: Wiktionary