▪ I. pinnock1 Now local.
(ˈpɪnək)
Forms: 3 pynnuc, pinnuc, 5 pynok, 6 pynnock, 6–7 pinnocke, 8– pinnock.
[prob. echoic, from the bird's note; but the ending simulates -ock, dim. suffix.]
A name for the hedge-sparrow or dunnock; also for the blue titmouse, and, locally, for some other birds: cf. dunnock, and Pinnick2 in Eng. Dial. Dict.
| a 1250 Owl & Night. 1130 Pynnuc [v.r. pinnuc] goldfynch rok ne crowe Ne dar neuer cumen ihende. 14.. Metr. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 625/3 Lirifa, pynok. 1570 Levins Manip. 158/46 A Pinnocke, hedge sparrow. 1706 Phillips, Pinnock, a sort of Bird. 1833 G. Montagu's Ornith. Dict., Pinnock, a name for the Tomtit. 1885 Swainson Prov. Names Brit. Birds 29 Hedge Sparrow (Accentor modularis)... From its short piping note it is called Titlene (North), Pinnock. |
▪ II. pinnock2 local.
Also pennock, pinnold.
[Derivation unascertained; the ending seems to be -ock, dim suffix.]
A small bridge over a ditch or runnel; a brick or wooden drain under a road or across a gateway, a culvert; also, a structure composed of three boards in which a hare when hard-pressed in coursing can take refuge as in a small drain or culvert: used in Romney Marshes.
| 1838 Holloway Dict. Provincialisms, Pinnold, a small bridge. Sussex. 1846 Worcester, Pinnock..a tunnel under a road to carry off the water; a culvert..(Local, Eng.). 1847–78 Halliwell, Pennock, a little bridge over a water⁓course. Sussex. 1875 Sussex Gloss., Pennock, a little bridge over a water course; a brick or wooden tunnel under a road to carry off the water. 1887 Kent. Gloss., Pinnock, a wooden drain through a gateway. |
▪ III. pinnock3 local.
[Origin obscure. Cf. pinny a.]
In Kent, a name for a particular kind of land: see quot. Hence ˈpinnocky a.
| 1796 J. Boys Agric. Kent 78 Pinnock..is a sticky red clay, mixed with small stones, but although it is deemed poor for cultivation of grain, &c. yet it produces very fine chestnut wood; and filberts likewise grow well upon it. 1881 Whitehead Hops 52 The planter notices..a small patch of yellowing plants in pinnocky or unkindly soil. |