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Kink

verb
(past & past part. kinked; pres. part. kinking)
1.
Curl tightly.  Synonyms: crape, crimp, frizz, frizzle, kink up.
2.
Form a curl, curve, or kink.  Synonyms: curl, curve.



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"Kink" Quotes from Famous Books



... thought driving him. His mind was sweeping along over a series of vivid pictures of past events, mixed up with equally vivid and strongly marked scenes of possible events to come. He was reviewing silently, sternly, a situation which, by some extraordinary kink in his vanity, he felt it was for him to assume the responsibility of. He felt, although with no feeling of pride, that he, and he alone, could see ...
— The Twins of Suffering Creek • Ridgwell Cullum

... Pig. "Once, when I was a little pig, a dog bit me on the tail, and I never got over it. In fact I have the marks yet," and he tried to look around at his tail, which had a kink in it. But Mr. Pig was too fat ...
— Squinty the Comical Pig - His Many Adventures • Richard Barnum

... I lift each strong plant between thumb and finger, its long, delicate white root dangling like a needle, and pot it in a small paper pot. When two score pots are ready, I set them in a cold-frame, sprinkle them, stretch the kink out of my back, listen to the wood-thrush a moment (he came on the fourteenth and is evidently planning to nest in our pines), and then return to my job. Patience is required to pot four or five hundred snapdragons; but patience is ...
— Penguin Persons & Peppermints • Walter Prichard Eaton

... below the spar. Some of his gang, believing he had really fallen, screamed, and the attention of the whole crew was drawn off from their duty. When the fore-topmast staysail and jib were to be set, somebody had fouled the down-hauls, so that they could not be hoisted. There was a kink in the halyards of the main-top gallant-sail, so that it would not run through the block. Clewlines, clew-garnets, leachlines, and buntlines were in a snarl. The zeal of those who were striving to do their duty faithfully seemed to make the matter worse, and the officers found it difficult to determine ...
— Down the Rhine - Young America in Germany • Oliver Optic

... ceased; and the rope, which felt in my hands like some living, vibrating thing, hung loose. The next moment a kink ran up it and dissolved in my hands. It was Denham's way of saying "All right," and I knew ...
— Charge! - A Story of Briton and Boer • George Manville Fenn



Words linked to "Kink" :   mortal, fold, U.K., turn, individual, soul, plication, difficulty, crape, crease, United Kingdom, cramp, wave, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, UK, thought, twirl, person, spasm, flexure, frizzle, someone, Britain, somebody, muscle spasm, deform, flex, change surface, Great Britain, idea, bend



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