Lexicographical Neighbors of Sinky
Literary usage of Sinky
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Planter's Guide: Or, A Practical Essay on the Best Method of Giving by Sir Henry Steuart (1832)
"In the same manner, I have taken the liberty to introduce the expression, that
ground is "sinky," when it yields easily to the foot of man, or other animals ..."
2. The Planter's Guide: Or, A Practical Essay on the Best Method of Giving by Sir Henry Steuart (1832)
"In the same manner, I have taken the liberty to introduce the expression, that
ground is " sinky," when it yields easily to the foot of ..."
3. The Planter's Guide: A Practical Essay on the Best Method of Giving by Henry Steuart (1848)
"... that ground is " sinky," when it yields easily to the foot of man, or other
animals ; that plants are " stemmy," when they are tall and slender, ..."
4. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology by Museum of Comparative Zoology, John E. Cadle, Harvard University (1894)
"Oil' sinky Bay the bottom outside of the outer reef ledges is hard. Off Castle
Harbor, as far as the channel leading into St. George Harbor (Plate XXL), ..."
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