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Etymology
Etymology tree English sink Proto-Indo-European *wert-der. Proto-Germanic *wardaz Old English -weard English -ward English sinkward From sink + -ward.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Towards a sink.
He takes the fruit and a knife sinkward, and as the women fashion plans he slices melon and devours the red fibers, spitting seeds into the hollow tub.
1986, Betty Rollin, Last Wish:Remove with warm water and don’t freak when the little black “tubes” fall sinkward.
2009 February 22, S.S. Fair, “Curl, Interrupted”, in New York Times: