sunblink

English

Etymology

sun +‎ blink

Noun

sunblink (plural sunblinks)

1. (archaic) A glimpse or flash of the sun.

   Synonyms: sunlight, sunny spell

   • 1818 July 25, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:

     the midges that the sunblink brings out

References

• “sunblink”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.