Definition of "skink"

skink¹

/skɪŋk/

noun
plural skinks
1. (Scotland, Northern England) A shin of beef.
2. (chiefly Scotland, obsolete) A soup or pottage made from a boiled shin of beef.
  Quotations
  For there are in the Flesh , Bones , Skinnes , organs , and the severall limbes of the living body : such spirits as are in the Flesh , Bone , and Skinke , beeing separated
  1623, Francis Bacon, Historia Vitae et Mortis
3. (chiefly Scotland, by extension) Usually preceded by a descriptive word: a soup or pottage made using other ingredients.

skink²

/skɪŋk/

noun
plural skinks
1. A lizard of the family Scincidae, having small or reduced limbs or none at all and long tails that are regenerated when shed; a sandfish.

skink³

/skɪŋk/

verb
third-person singular simple present skinks, present participle skinking, simple past and past participle skinked
1. (transitive, intransitive, Scotland) To serve (a drink).
  Quotations
  Such wine as Ganymede doth skink to Jove, / When he invites the gods to feast with him / On Juno's wedding-day.
  1640 November 20 (date licensed, Gregorian calendar; published 1652), James Shirley, “The Imposture”, in William Gifford and Alexander Dyce, editors, The Dramatic Works and Poems of James Shirley, […], volume V, London: John Murray, […], published 1833, Act V, scene i, page 246
  [W]hile he would spit beyond the table, he all-to-bespawleth him who skinketh at the feast.
  1900, Theophrastus, “Of Foulness”, in [anonymous], transl., edited by David J[osiah] Brewer, Edward A. Allen, and William Schuyler, The World’s Best Essays from the Earliest Period to the Present Time […], royal edition, volume X, St. Louis, Mo.: Ferd[inand] P. Kaiser, page 3769
2. (transitive, Scotland, Northern England, obsolete) To give (something) as a present.
noun
plural skinks
1. (obsolete) A drink.