penk
English
Noun
penk (plural penks)
- (Britain, dialectal) A minnow.
- 1676, Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, The Compleat Angler, 1833, James Rennie (editor), The Complete Angler; Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation, page 98,
- Now for the Minnow, or Penk: he is not easily found and caught till March, or in April, for then he appears first in the river, […] .
- 1676, Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, The Compleat Angler, 1833, James Rennie (editor), The Complete Angler; Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation, page 98,
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for penk in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)