What is "jinker"

Usage examples of "jinker".

Miss Murray condescended to drink a glass of wine, and, just as the small gathering was on the point of breaking up, Patrick McNamara arrived in a smart new jinker and declared himself cut to the quick that his old friend Mad Jack had not asked him to stand up as groomsman and demanded satisfaction.

She hurried on, finding her way as much by memory as by sight, and was only vaguely aware when a jinker halted beside her and a familiar voice called her name.

She had not ridden in a jinker for some time, and she closed her eyes gratefully.

It had been a guilty pleasure to ride in a jinker beside a man who treated her with concern.

This morning they climbed the same ladder to the same jinker platform, but this time Ada gestured him ahead, only smiling at his gentlemanly protests that she go first, the smile suggesting some vixen memory of the event he had thought had gone unnoticed by her at the time.

Ardis Hall was a tall manor and the jinker platform, its mahogany planks still gleaming, thrust out between gables to an overhang sixty feet above the gravel drive where voynix stood like rusted upright scarabs.

I had a few minutes alone up on the jinker platform with the sonie and I figured out how to interface my palm functions with its display.

The group broke up with Greogi leading some people upstairs to the jinker platform to relaunch the sonie.

She pointed at the ancient jinker platform up between the gables and skylights on the roof.

A rock flew up out of the darkness and the man or woman fell backward off the jinker platform, the body sliding down the steep roof and dropping away.

Two jinkers clattered past, with bags slung underneath for the dogs to rest in.