Crossword clues for conker
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Horse-chestnut \Horse`-chest"nut\, Horsechestnut \Horse`chest"nut\, n.
(Bot.) The large nutlike seed of a species of [AE]sculus ( [AE]sculus Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed to horses, whence the name. The seed is not considered edible by humans. [WordNet sense 2]
(Bot.) The tree itself ( Aesculus hippocastanum), which was brought from Constantinople in the beginning of the sixteenth century, and is now common in the temperate zones of both hemispheres; it has palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds. The native American species is also called buckeye and conker. [WordNet sense 1]
conker \conk"er\ (k[o^][ng]k"[~e]r), n. the inedible nutlike seed of the horsechestnut.
Syn: buckeye, horsechestnut, horse-chestnut.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"snail shell," also "horse chestnut," from children's game of conkers (q.v.).
Wiktionary
n. (context British English) A horse chestnut, which is used in the game of conkers.
WordNet
n. the inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut [syn: buckeye, horse chestnut]
Wikipedia
Conker is a series of platform video games created by Rare. It chronicles the events of Conker the Squirrel, a fictional red squirrel that made his debut as a playable character in Diddy Kong Racing. Although the first game in the series was family friendly and geared towards children, the series is noted for its later games and their mature content, which includes strong bloody graphic violence, sexual innuendo, strong language, toilet humor, and several film parodies.
Conker may refer to:
Horse chestnuts- The seed of the horse chestnut, Aesculus hippocastanum
- Conkers, a traditional children's game, using the seed threaded on a string
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Conker (series), a video game franchise by Rare
- Conker's Pocket Tales, the first solo game in the series
- Conker's Bad Fur Day, the second game in the series
- Conker: Live & Reloaded, a Xbox remake of the second game
- Conker the Squirrel, the main character in the series
- Conkeror, a web browser
- Conkerberry, the plant Carissa spinarum
Usage examples of "conker".
I told myself, kicking a little heap of conkers out of my path and watching them roll bumpily away from me.
Ossywattermy had varis failins, one of which was a idee that he cood conker Virginny with a few duzzen loonatics which he had pickt up sumwhares, mercy only nose wher.
In a good year, the conkers come raining down in the autumn as the leaves turn from a rich green to yellows, browns and gold.
There is a big horse-chestnut tree between their garden and ours, very useful for getting conkers out of and for making stuff to rub on your chilblains.
He and James always collected such nuts from the wood in early autumn for their school games of conkers, but he had never seen one as large and round as this.
Marguerite's chestnut-coloured hair, smoothly polished and sleek with golden lights in it like a ripe conker, enhanced her green eyes.
It was one thing to have a go at faceless bastards in uniform, but quite another to throw stones at old Fred Colon or old Waddy or old Billy Wiglet, who you'd known since you were two years old and played Dead Rat Conkers with in the gutter.
Spanish Admiral's ship, givin the audiens the idee that he intends openin a moosic-hall in Plymouth the moment he conkers that town.
He had some trouble in gitting hisself acknowledged as Juke in France, as the Orleans Dienasty and Borebones were fernest him, but he finally conkered.
As beautiful as the peacock butterflies crowding the Michaelmas daisies round the pavilion gathered the lass of Paradise, their limbs as smooth and shiningly brown as the conkers hanging in their prickly cases on the great golden chestnuts on the edge of Rannaldini's woods.
Despite the warmth, the cedars, wellingtonias and yews flanking the house were already full of orange leaves from the nearby horse chestnuts, and the ground was littered with conkers.