Crossword clues for ranker
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rank \Rank\ (r[a^][ng]k), a. [Compar. Ranker (r[a^][ng]k"[~e]r); superl. Rankest.] [AS. ranc strong, proud; cf. D. rank slender, Dan. rank upright, erect, Prov. G. rank slender, Icel. rakkr slender, bold. The meaning seems to have been influenced by L. rancidus, E. rancid.]
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Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.
And, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.
--Gen. xli. 5. Raised to a high degree; violent; extreme; gross; utter; as, rank heresy. ``Rank nonsense.''
--Hare. ``I do forgive thy rankest fault.''
--Shak.Causing vigorous growth; producing luxuriantly; very rich and fertile; as, rank land.
--Mortimer.Strong-scented; rancid; musty; as, oil of a rank smell; rank-smelling rue.
--Spenser.Strong to the taste. ``Divers sea fowls taste rank of the fish on which they feed.''
--Boyle.-
Inflamed with venereal appetite. [Obs.]
--Shak.Rank modus (Law), an excessive and unreasonable modus. See Modus, 3.
To set (the iron of a plane, etc.) rank, to set so as to take off a thick shaving.
--Moxon.
Ranker \Rank"er\ (r[a^][ng]k"[~e]r), n. One who ranks, or disposes in ranks; one who arranges.
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: rank) n. 1 One who ranks things, or arranges them in ranks. 2 A kind of soil developed over non-calcareous material, usually rock.
WordNet
n. a commissioned officer who has been promoted from enlisted status
an enlisted soldier who serves in the ranks of the armed forces
Wikipedia
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Usage examples of "ranker".
She said that the one in the harbor has an armory, and that there are three companies billeted there, and none of the patroller rankers can have consorts.
Myrmidon officer born on Acorus who had worked his way up from being a ranker into the officer corps.
Knowing nothing of this, I went forward with as much lightheartedness as could be managed, humming a song to myself, and carefully putting aside thoughts of warmth and supper, while the dusk increased and the great forest vegetation seemed to grow ranker and closer at every step Another disconcerting thing was that the ground sloped gradually downwards, not upwards as it should have done, till it seemed the path lay across the flats of a forest-covered plain, which did not conform to my wish of striking a road on the foot-hills of the mountain.
Pompeius Rufus walked wherever he liked, finding himself greeted by everyone from centurions to rankers in a most friendly manner.
Ninth, Tenth, Twelfth, Fourteenth, their standards loaded down with honors, their share of booty sufficient to give the rankers Third Class status in the Centuries, their centurions Second Class status.
Six hundred million for the rankers, a hundred and fourteen million for the centurions, seventy-two million for the horse, and two hundred and fifty million for the fleets.
The rankers, as she had promised, arrived in Antioch, where I have put them back under stern Roman military discipline.
The rankers got sent back to Antioch and the ringleaders were executed.
And in close second place, it was a chance for me to show the rankers that their general sees justice done as justice should be done, no favoritism for members of the family.
While the Fimbriani roistered their way through winter in Tigranocerta, Publius Clodius whispered in the ears of their centurions, and their centurions whispered in the ears of the rankers, and the rankers whispered in the ears of the Galatian troopers.
So I issued orders that no one was to offend them religiously, from the rankers all the way up to my senior legates.
A moment later doors slid aside and Alpha-Bureaucrat Stemp rushed out along with Alpha Chin and Supervisor Bear, flanked by senior peaceguardian brass and some of the biggest rankers Floyt had ever seen.
I become very testy when rankers and junior tribunes think they are entitled to a say-but more of that anon.
After which he gave every ranker a cash bonus of two hundred sesterces, and every centurion a cash bonus of two thousand sesterces.
Officers and high rankers of the immediate staffs of the First Signore and his Council on Signori were quite breathtaking in their grandeur.