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a porcelain confession booth where your dishes and your secrets get rinsed away
means A basin fixed to a wall with a water supply and drain, used for washing dishes, hands, or food; or, as a verb, to descend below a surface.
from From Old English 'sincan,' to become submerged or fall to the bottom, a Germanic word with cousins across the north — Old Norse 'søkkva,' Dutch 'zinken,' German 'sinken.' The verb came first: things sank long before we built basins. The noun for the kitchen fixture is younger, arriving once 'sink' came to mean a place where water (and waste) drains away and disappears — the spot where things go down.
- word origin
- named for water sinking down, not the basin
- germ city
- kitchen sinks hold more bacteria than toilets
- naval slang
- sailors say sink for shipwrecks too
- P-trap genius
- that bend blocks sewer gas from rising
titanic's grand staircase — luxury ship sank in 1912 in the north atlantic after hitting an iceberg
rms lusitania — british passenger ship torpedoed and sank off ireland in 1915 with 1,198 deaths
vasa warship — swedish warship that sank in stockholm harbor in 1628 on its maiden voyage