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links | tinks |

As a noun links

is .

As a verb tinks is

(tink).

links

English

Etymology 1

See link.

Noun

(head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (link)

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (links)
  • 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
    • but what worthy golf links is not intolerably hard of access?
  • * 1919 , Harold H. Hilton, “Golf Courses at Home and Abroad”, in The Windsor Magazine , no. 296, p. 173.
    • 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.
  • * 1920 , Walter Hines Page, The World’s Work , page 393
    • All over the country, links are scattered — club links, public links, and private links — and every year the number grows.
  • * 1967 , Litellus Russell Muirhead, Scotland , page 278
    • 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.
  • * 2002 , Forrest L. Richardson, Routing the Golf Course: The Art & Science That Forms the Golf Journey , page 95
    • A true links is built on linksland […]
  • * 2003 , Lorne Rubenstein, A Season in Dornoch: Golf and Life in the Scottish Highlands , page 168
    • A links is best when it’s really firm and when the wind is really up.

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    tinks

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (tink)

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    tink

    English

    Etymology 1

    Imitative.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To emit a high-pitched noise.
    • Jimmy heard the bells tink .
    Synonyms
    * tinkle
    References
    [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/tink]

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dated) A sharp, quick sound; a tinkle.

    • Etymology 2

    knit spelled backwards.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (knitting, slang, transitive) To unknit.
  • * Amy Lane, A Knitter in His Natural Habitat (page 48)
    • Stanley knitted when he should have purled and swore, tinking the knitting back to fix the flaw.
  • * 2006 , Heather Dixon, Not Your Mama's Knitting (page 89)
    • If the stitch you need to fix is on the last or previous row, a bit of unknitting, or “tinking ” as it is known by some knitters, is all that is needed to get back to the point where you can mend your mistake.

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