Crossword clues for barker
barker
- Carnival worker
- Carnival person
- Someone who stands in front of a show (as at a carnival) and gives a loud colorful sales talk to potential customers
- Informal terms for dogs
- Sideshow tout
- Sideshow worker
- One earning crust from bread engages right tout
- Fairground tout
- Fairground worker and drink supplier not turning to go
- Sideshow employee
- Sideshow feature
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Barker \Bark"er\, n.
An animal that barks; hence, any one who clamors unreasonably.
One who stands at the doors of shops to urg? passers by to make purchases. [Cant, Eng.]
A pistol. [Slang]
--Dickens.(Zo["o]l.) The spotted redshank.
Barker \Bark"er\, n. One who strips trees of their bark.
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.
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 it for use in tanning. 2 A machine used to remove the bark from wood.
WordNet
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 234
Land area (2000): 0.420455 sq. miles (1.088974 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.420455 sq. miles (1.088974 sq. km)
FIPS code: 04440
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 43.327466 N, 78.553592 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 14012
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Barker
Wikipedia
Barker may refer to:
A barker is a person who attempts to attract patrons to entertainment events, such as a circus or funfair, by exhorting passing public, describing attractions of show and emphasizing variety, novelty, beauty, or some other feature believed to incite listeners to attend entertainment. A barker may conduct a brief free show, introducing performers and describing acts to be given at the feature performance. Professional barkers strongly dislike the term and instead refer to themselves as "talkers."
Perhaps the most famous fictional barkers are Billy Bigelow, the protagonist of Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic stage musical Carousel, and Tin Man, a supporting protagonist from the 1978 musical film The Wiz portrayed by Nipsey Russell. Bigelow, in turn was an Americanized version of Liliom, the protagonist of Hungarian author Ferenc Molnár's non-musical play Liliom, on which Carousel is based.
Barker is a surname of Irish-English origin, and may refer to:
Barker (dates unknown) was an English amateur cricketer who made six known appearances in first-class cricket matches from 1787 to 1793.
Barker is a full-service advertising and digital agency based in New York City. The firm specializes in integrated, traditional and interactive marketing. Primary disciplines include Branding, Digital and Traditional Media Planning & Buying, Digital Content Creation, Interactive Development, and Social Media Marketing.
Barker & Co. was a coachbuilder, a maker of luxurious carriages and in the 20th century bodywork for very expensive prestige cars.
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.