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balkers

balkers is the plural of balker.

Meaning of balker

Noun

balker (plural balkers)

  1. Someone or something that balks; a naysayer.
  2. (obsolete) A person who stands on a rock or eminence to observe shoals of herring, etc., and to give notice to the men in boats which way they pass.
    • The Pilcherd are pursued and deuoured by a bigger kinde of fish, called a Plusher, being somewhat like the Dog-fish, who leapeth now and then aboue water, and therethrough bewrayeth them to the Balker […]1602, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, folio 34ʳ
    Synonyms:
    huer, conder

Questions about balkers

What is balkers the plural of?
Balkers is the plural of balker.

Words near balkers in the dictionary

  1. Balke
  2. balked
  3. balked landing
  4. balked landings
  5. balker
  6. balkers
  7. Balkes
  8. balkest
  9. balketh
  10. Balkh
  11. balkhashite

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