sb.1 [f. KINK sb.1 Cf. E.Fris. kinkel kink.]
1. A little or slight kink or twist; also transf.
1862. Lowell, Biglow P., Ser. II. ii. 7. To shake the kinkles out o’ back an’ legs.
1881. Blackmore, Christowell, xvi. He stroked the cow; but she … made no other movement than a kinkle in her tail.
2. A herring-bone or zigzag arrangement in which bricks are laid in a kiln, etc., the alternate courses being inclined at an angle of 45° in opposite directions: attrib., as in kinkle form, shape, course.
1855. Morton, Cycl. Agric., II. 161/1 s.v. Kiln, The next is the stretcher and kinkle or skinkle course … in which the stretcher … lies over the solid arch, and the kinkle … over the hollow work. Ibid. Roofing-tiles [are laid] in the kinkle shape. Ibid. The large paving bricks are either laid up in the kinkle form, on their ends, or flat, like common bricks.
3. fig. A ‘wrinkle,’ a hint. Cf. KINK sb.1 2 b.
a. 1873. Lytton, Parisian, II. viii. I am not without a kinkle that you will be enthused.
