| sink | 1. A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes. 2. A shallow box or vessel of wood, stone, iron, or other material, connected with a drain, and used for receiving filthy water, etc, as in a kitchen. 3. A hole or low place in land or rock, where waters sink and are lost; called also sink hole. Sink hole. The opening to a sink drain. A cesspool. Same as Sink. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| sinker | One who, or that which, sinks. Specifically: A weight on something, as on a fish line, to sink it. In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles. Dividing sinker, in knitting machines, a sinker between two jack sinkers and acting alternately with them. Jack sinker. See Jack, Sinker bar. In knitting machines, a bar to which one set of the sinkers is attached. In deep well boring, a heavy bar forming a connection between the lifting rope and the boring tools, above the jars. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| alkali sink | <ecology> A land basin in which water evaporation produces high salt concentrations that may, or may not, support salt marsh vegetation. (13 Nov 1997) |
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