Sc. and dial. Also 7 trinck. [perh. a. Norm. (Picard) trenque, trencque, northern form of OF. trenche, tranche TRENCH.] A trench, channel, watercourse (natural or artificial).
1592. Aberdeen Regr. (1848), II. 77. That na channell, stanes, sand, nor any uther thing be cassin in the trink of the watter, or within the fluid merk, out of schippis, craris, or bottis. Ibid. (1603), 239. That the haill trinck of the water salbe drawn doun the South syd of the Lochfeild croft … and eist syd of the said loch in the auld trinck to be cassin deper and wyder, and that the water trinck on the south-vest syd of the said locht … salbe stoppit and condamnit.
1812. J. Henderson, Agric. Surv. Caithn., 200. The lower end in an oblong trink in the earth or floor.
1825. Jamieson, Trink, trenk, app. synon. with Eng. trench.
1859–99. in Eng. Dial. Dict.
