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About 10 gallons, in Europe
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anker
Alternative clues for the word anker
Word definitions for anker in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Anker was a German automobile manufactured in Berlin between 1919 and 1920. Cars were built up from war-surplus components of the inline-four engine Wanderer . Category:Vintage vehicles Category:Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of Germany
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anker \An"ker\, n. [D. anker: cf. LL. anceria, ancheria.] A liquid measure in various countries of Europe. The Dutch anker, formerly also used in England, contained about 10 of the old wine gallons, or 81/2 imperial gallons.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. (context obsolete English) a measure of wine or spirit equal to 10 gallons; a barrel of this capacity n. (context obsolete English) a measure of wine or spirit equal to 10 gallons; a barrel of this capacity
Usage examples of anker.
He wound up on the Beach at Sigma End, where he hung out with guys like the legendary Billy Anker, at that time obsessed with Radio RX1.
Billy Anker mistrusted the shadow operators though he never would say why.
Billy Anker tapped the fingers of his good hand on the arm of his acceleration chair.
Billy Anker absently rubbed his right hand as if to alleviate the pain of his missing fingers.
Billy Anker, dressed in a vintage EV suit, was shuffling head down towards it with all the grim patience of the physically unfit.
She was interested in her body and her face, but she was obsessed with her hair, which at the time they rescued Billy Anker from Redline was a long pinkish-blonde floss that smelled permanently of peppermint shampoo.
Billy Anker inhabited the human quarters like two species of animal in the same field.
Billy Anker left his half the way it was, and sat naked in the middle of the floor in the mornings, his unbuffed body running to a kind of scrawny middle age, doing the exercises of some complicated satori routine.
There was a dish of rosewater by the bed for Billy Anker to dip his fingers in if he started to come too soon.
They smoked for a while then Billy Anker, casting around for something to slake his thirst, drank the rosewater from the bedside dish.
Mona the clone threw her arm across her eyes then, realising what must have happened, shoved Billy Anker away from her.
When she woke, she thought for a moment that someone was bending over her: in the same instant, she saw herself marooning Billy Anker and Mona the clone in the shadow of the gas giant.
She had a need to see Billy Anker that anyone else would have described as physical.
Billy Anker and Mona the clone lying half out of the long cobalt shadows.
Mona the clone had felt only contempt for her, and Billy Anker had pitied her even as she killed him: in addition his hard death still hung before her, like the menu for her own.