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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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(Nink-,) Nynckling, vbl. n. [Cf. late ME. nyngkiling (a 1400–50).] A slight intimation, a hint, inkling. = Inklin. — c1610 Melville Mem. 371.
He had also hard a nynckling of a word, how that his majeste … had send [etc.]
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