# bink

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #95,744

## Definitions
1. A bench.
2. A table or similar surface for laying out items.
3. A sideboard or shelf unit for holding dishes.
4. A mountain ledge.
5. A long cut in peat moss, marking a section from which blocks of peat are cut.
6. A hive.

## Etymology
From Middle English bink, binke, variants of Middle English benk, benke, from Old English benc (“bench”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz. More at bench.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/bink