Crossword clues for dunker
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 Someone who dunks. 2 (context basketball English) A person tasked with performing or training others in slam dunks.
WordNet
n. an eater who dips food into a liquid before eating it; "he was a dunker--he couldn't eat a doughnut without a cup of coffee to dunk it in"
a basketball player who is able to make dunk shots
an adherent of Baptistic doctrines (who practice baptism by immersion) [syn: Dunkard, Tunker]
Wikipedia
A Dunker, also known as the Norwegian Hound, is a medium-sized breed of dog from Norway. It was bred by Wilhelm Dunker to be a scenthound by crossing a Russian Harlequin Hound with dependable Norwegian scent hounds.
Dunker may refer to
- Conradine Birgitte Dunker (1780–1866), Norwegian socialite and writer
- Gösta Dunker (1905–1973), Swedish footballer
- Jens Gram Dunker (1892–1981), Norwegian architect
- Oļģerts Dunkers (1832–1997), Latvian actor and film director
- Wilhelm Dunker (1809–1885), German geologist, paleontologist and malacologist
Dunker, a Pennsylvania German form of the German verb tunken, to dip, may refer to various Christian denominations related to the Schwarzenau (German Baptist) Brethren:
- Church of the Brethren
- Church of God (New Dunkers)
- Dunkard Brethren
- Ephrata Cloister
- Old German Baptist Brethren
Dunker may also refer to:
- Dunker, breed of dog, also known as the Norwegian Hound
- Dilbert Dunker, aircraft training device
Usage examples of "dunker".
Then, after they reached Cil Chasm where they intended to stay, she and Rish and Dunker, two charter members of her personal fan club at Pehanron, had spent an hour fishing along the little river, up into the canyon and back down again.
Valia and Dunker coming up behind him, started to say something, shook his head, slid into the car, and turned on the communicator.
Telzey glanced at them, checked the watch Dunker had loaned her after she smashed the one in her wrist-talker on the fishing excursion.
Rish frowned, glanced back at Valia and Dunker coming up behind him, started to say something, shook his head, slid into the car, and turned on the communicator.
Not only was the disappearance of Brittany Little not a dunker or a gimme, it was going to attract press attention once the details began to shake loose.
It had always amazed Longarm how people could almost come to blows over whether it was best to be a dunker or a sprinkler.
After a gunnery sergeant gave the signal, the Dunker dropped into a swimming pool like a boulder and turned upside down.
They waded out into the warm shallow water, beyond the shrieks of the bobbers and dunkers, avoided the little paddle-bicycles, the flotilla of water wings, and still were only waist deep.
The German settlers were mostly Lutherans, but there were other sectsMennonites, Dunkers and Sabbatarians, Moravians, Separatists.