† ˈpinebank Obs.
Also 6 pyne-bank(e, pin-.
[= MDu. pijnbanck, MHG., Ger. peinbank: cf. pine n.1, and bank2.]
An old name of the rack.
(Sometimes erroneously explained as ‘a bank or row of pins or spikes’. Also often erroneously printed -bauk.)
| 1534 More Comf. agst. Trib. i. xviii. Wks. 1162/1 Than must he leaue his outwarde worship..and lye pantyng in his bedde as it were on a pine bank. 1542 Sc. Acts Mary (1814) II. 422/2 Seand vþeris of perfite aige and stark of persoune put on þe said pynebankis [printed-baukis]. 1550 J. Coke Eng. & Fr. Heralds (1877) 123 Seven dayes stretched on a pyne bank. 1570 Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 1028/1 Then was he thrise put to the pyne-banke, tormented most miserably, to vtter his setters on. 1580 Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Bailler la question.., to put one on the racke or pinbanke. [1828–40 Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) II. 406 The witnesses [were], as was usual in this cruel age [1537]..examined under the rack, or pynebaukis.] |