Links vs Slinks - What's the difference?
links | slinks |
(link)
A golf course, especially one situated on dunes by the sea.
* 1894 , “The Golfer in Search of a Climate”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine , page 570
* 1919 , Harold H. Hilton, “Golf Courses at Home and Abroad”, in The Windsor Magazine , no. 296, p. 173.
* 1920 , Walter Hines Page, The World’s Work , page 393
* 1967 , Litellus Russell Muirhead, Scotland , page 278
* 2002 , Forrest L. Richardson, Routing the Golf Course: The Art & Science That Forms the Golf Journey , page 95
* 2003 , Lorne Rubenstein, A Season in Dornoch: Golf and Life in the Scottish Highlands , page 168
(slink)
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To sneak about furtively.
* Milton
* Landor
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To give birth to an animal prematurely.
The young of an animal when born prematurely, especially a calf.
(UK, Scotland, dialect) A thievish fellow; a sneak.
As a noun links
is .As a verb slinks is
(slink).links
English
Etymology 1
See link.Noun
(head)Verb
(head)Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(links)- but what worthy golf links is not intolerably hard of access?
- The royal and ancient game of golf may now claim to be the universal game of the world, as in every part of the habitable globe links are to be found.
- All over the country, links are scattered — club links, public links, and private links — and every year the number grows.
- The links are the property of the town, the Courses being under the management of a joint committee representing the R. & A. Golf Club and the City.
- A true links is built on linksland […]
- A links is best when it’s really firm and when the wind is really up.
Anagrams
* * English invariant nouns ----slinks
English
Verb
(head)slink
English
Verb
- Back to the thicket slunk the guilty serpent.
- There were some few who slank obliquely from them as they passed.
- a cow that slinks her calf