kink

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a sharp twist or bend in a rope, hair, or line

   A kink in the hose stopped the water from reaching the garden.

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Simplified etymology

Kink entered English in the late seventeenth century as a nautical term for a twist in a rope. It comes from Middle Low German kinke, probably from Dutch kinken, “to kink.”

From Dutch kink ('twist or curl in a rope'), a nautical term, of Low German origin; perhaps ultimately imitative.

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