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noun
An animal, especially a calf, born prematurely or abortively.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A slough, a low, wet, miry place. (Compare slank.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal
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verb
simple past and past participle of slink
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Usage: form-of, participle, past
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History
From an allusive sense of slink (“to bring forth young prematurely”).
Compare slank (“low place, especially one which fills with water”), dialectal slonk (“depression, hollow, slough”).
