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barker
Alternative clues for the word barker
Word definitions for barker in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 Someone or something who bark#Etymology_2s. 2 A person employed to solicit customers by calling out to passersby, e.g. at a carnival. Etymology 2 n. 1 (context obsolete English) A person that removes the bark#Etymology_1 from wood, or prepares ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"noisy fellow," late 15c., agent noun from bark (v.). Specific sense of "loud assistant in an auction, store, or show" is from 1690s.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Barker \Bark"er\, n. One who strips trees of their bark.
Usage examples of barker.
Captain Barker had plucked the napkin from his throat, caught up his sword from a chair, and was buckling on the belt in a tremendous hurry.
And here Captain Barker halted and, tugging off hat and wig, wiped his crown with a silk handkerchief.
Captain Barker, who for more than two years had not crossed its threshold.
Captain Barker stepped down to the Fish and Anchor to borrow a bottle of ink.
Captain Barker, left alone, rearranged his neckcloth, contemplated his crooked legs for a moment with some disgust, and began to trot up and down the grass-plot, whistling the while with great energy and no regard for tune.
Captain Barker and Captain Runacles entered Harwich and advanced up the West Street side by side.
A pale sunshine touched the edge of the pavement across the road, and while Captain Barker was settling the bill, the doctor stepped across and picked a dice-box out of the gutter.
Captain Barker perceived two letters lying side by side upon a table there.
Captain Barker, however, resented the marriage on the ground that she was out of place in a pavilion expressly designed for a confirmed bachelor.
Twice a day Captain Barker visited his nursery and studied him attentively.
Captain Barker set to work to study the art in which Tristram was to be instructed, and, being by nature a hater of superficiality, determined to begin by acquainting himself with everything that had been written about the nature and habits of plants from the earliest ages to that present day.
Narcissus, as Captain Barker pounced on the youngster and haled him off to the tulip-bed.
Captain Barker is quite capable, should he get hold of this will, of regarding your mere existence as an insult.
King James having escaped to Saint Germains, King William reigned in his stead, to the welfare of his people and the disgust of Captain Barker and Captain Runacles, who from habit were unable to regard a Dutchman otherwise than as an enemy to be knocked on the head.
Captain Barker, stamping his foot and pointing to the cluster over his head.