Definition of "jinker" []

• A high wheeled truck designed to carry lumber suspended under the body of the vehicle. (noun)

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• "Ardis Hall was a tall manor and the jinker platform, its mahogany planks still gleaming, thrust out between gables to an overhang sixty feet above the gravel drive where voynix stood like rusted upright scarabs."
• "This morning they climbed the same ladder to the same jinker platform, but this time Ada gestured him ahead, only smiling at his gentlemanly protests that she go first, the smile suggesting some vixen memory of the event he had thought had gone unnoticed by her at the time."
• "They got up into the jinker and drove through the empty streets to the hotel."