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nacker

nacker is the obsolete form of nacre.

nacker is the alternative spelling of nackan.

Meaning of nacre

Noun

nacre (countable and uncountable, plural nacres)

  1. (obsolete) A shellfish which contains mother-of-pearl.
    • The shell-fish called a Nacre, liveth even so with the Pinnotere, which is a little creature like unto a Crabfish[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
  2. A pearly substance made mainly of stacked layers of aragonite and organic matter which lines the interior of many shells; mother-of-pearl.
    • On a little table of dark perfumed wood thickly encrusted with nacre, […]was lying a note from Lord Henry, and beside it was a book bound in yellow paper, the cover slightly torn and the edges soiled.1891, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Meaning of nackan

Noun

nackan (plural nackans)

  1. (Cornwall, rare, regional) Pocket handkerchief.
    • Don’t you be frightened even if you happen to see Old Nick. Perhaps it would be well to tie a nackan (handkerchief) over your eyes...1870s, Bottrell, William, The Ghost of Stythians

Questions about nacker

What is nacker the obsolete form of?
Nacker is the obsolete form of nacre.

Words near nacker in the dictionary

  1. nackan
  2. Nackawic
  3. nacked
  4. nackednavirus
  5. nackednaviruses
  6. nacker
  7. nackin
  8. nacking
  9. nacks
  10. NaCl
  11. nacoda

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nacker (page history and authors); nacre (page history and authors); nackan (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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