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dickers

dickers is the plural 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

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Questions about dickers

What is dickers the plural of?
Dickers is the plural of dicker.

Words near dickers in the dictionary

  1. dickerings
  2. Dickerman
  3. Dickermann
  4. dickerod
  5. dickerods
  6. dickers
  7. Dickerson
  8. dickery
  9. Dickeson
  10. dickey
  11. Dickey County

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