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Webster 1913 Edition

(pĕṉk)

Noun.

A minnow. See

Noun.

, 4.

[Prov. Eng.]

Walton.

penk ‎(plural penks)

(Britain, dialect) A minnow.
- 1676, Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, The Compleat Angler, 1833, James Rennie (editor), The Complete Angler; Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation, page 98,
  Now for the Minnow, or Penk: he is not easily found and caught till March, or in April, for then he appears first in the river, […] .