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daker

daker is the alternative form of dicker.

Meaning of dicker

Noun

dicker (countable and uncountable, plural dickers)

  1. (obsolete) A unit of measure, consisting of 10 of some object, particularly hides and skins.
    • Hobs [the Tanner of Tamsworth]. […] My taking is more than my spending, for here's store left. I have spent but a groat; a penny for my two jades, a penny to the poor, a penny pot of ale, and a penny cake for my man and me, a dicker of cowhides cost me.1599, attributed to Thomas Heywood, Edward IV, Part One, Act III, Scene 1, https://books.google.ca/books?id=d_MuAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
  2. (US) A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares.
    • to make a dicker

See all 5 meanings of dicker

Proper noun capitalized: Daker

Daker

  1. A surname.

Forms of daker

pluraldakers
alternative formdakir

Origin of daker

See dicker.

Questions about daker

What does daker mean?
Daker means a surname.
What is daker the alternative form of?
Daker is the alternative form of dicker.
What part of speech is daker?
Daker is a proper noun.

Words near daker in the dictionary

  1. Dakarois
  2. Dakasian
  3. Dake
  4. dakeite
  5. Dakelh
  6. daker
  7. daker-hen
  8. daker-hens
  9. dakerhen
  10. dakerhens
  11. dakers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: daker (page history and authors); Daker (page history and authors); dicker (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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