Crossword clues for anker
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also anchor, liquid measure in North Sea and Baltic trade, early 14c., from Dutch, related to German Anker, Swedish ankare, Medieval Latin anceria "keg, vat," which is of unknown origin. That of Rotterdam, once used in England, equaled 10 old wine or 8.5 imperial gallons.
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
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
Anker (cognate Ancher) is a given name of Danish, Faroese and Norwegian origin, sometimes used as a surname. Anker is also used for:
Anker, also spelled Ancher, is a Danish and Norwegian noble family living in Norway. The name means anchor. Originally from Sweden, the family became a part of the Patriciate of Norway in the 18th century, and members of the family were ennobled in 1778.
'''For other usages, refer Dutch units of measurement' Anker was a US unit of capacity for wine.
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.