sink

v. t. 1. To cause to sink; to put under water; to immerse or submerge in a fluid; as, to sink a ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ The Athenians ] fell upon the wings and sank a single ship. Jowett (Thucyd.). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Figuratively: To cause to decline; to depress; to degrade; hence, to ruin irretrievably; to destroy, as by drowping; as, to sink one's reputation. [ 1913 Webster ]

I raise of sink, imprison or set free. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

If I have a conscience, let it sink me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thy cruel and unnatural lust of power
Has sunk thy father more than all his years. Rowe. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make (a depression) by digging, delving, or cutting, etc.; as, to sink a pit or a well; to sink a die. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To bring low; to reduce in quantity; to waste. [ 1913 Webster ]

You sunk the river repeated draughts. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To conseal and appropriate. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

If sent with ready money to buy anything, and you happen to be out of pocket, sink the money, and take up the goods on account. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore. [ 1913 Webster ]

A courtly willingness to sink obnoxious truths. Robertson. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To reduce or extinguish by payment; as, to sink the national debt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A shallow box or vessel of wood, stone, iron, or other material, connected with a drain, and used for receiving filthy water, etc., as in a kitchen. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A hole or low place in land or rock, where waters sink and are lost; -- called also sink hole. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The lowest part of a natural hollow or closed basin whence the water of one or more streams escapes by evaporation; as, the sink of the Humboldt River. [ Western U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Sink hole. (a) The opening to a sink drain. (b) A cesspool. (c) Same as Sink, n., 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, sinks. Specifically: (a) A weight on something, as on a fish line, to sink it. (b) In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dividing sinker, in knitting machines, a sinker between two jack sinkers and acting alternately with them. --
Jack sinker. See under Jack, n. --
Sinker bar. (a) In knitting machines, a bar to which one set of the sinkers is attached. (b) In deep well boring, a heavy bar forming a connection between the lifting rope and the boring tools, above the jars. [ 1913 Webster ]