What is "slinkers"

Usage examples of "slinkers".

We learned what slinkers are early in our starfaring, when first we had scant contact with Terrans, afterward hostile contact.

Always slinkers are associated with fragments of an earlier civilization, such as Aeneas has.

Jon-Tom tried to position his ramwood staff, but the slinkers were too fast.

Around them dozens of slinkers were slaughtering imprisoned crocodilians.

There were supposed to be other creatures out there, skinny wolflike slinkers, all lank jaws and burning eyes-he’d thought he’d spotted one before, the barest glimpse of motion from the corner of his eye, when he’d been on his way out to the skiff rental yard.

It might not take them to Gammage as he wished it to do, but at least it was bearing them away from the Ratton prison, and he believed that those slinkers would not dare to attack again as long as Foskatt and he rode this servant.