Definition of anker

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Anker (n.) A liquid measure in various countries of Europe. The Dutch anker, formerly also used in England, contained about 10 of the old wine gallons, or 8/ imperial gallons..

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Hanker :: Hanker (v. i.) To linger in expectation or with desire.
Exchange :: Exchange (n.) The place where the merchants, brokers, and bankers of a city meet at certain hours, to transact business. In this sense often contracted to 'Change..
Driver :: Driver (n.) The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker..
Mountebankery :: Mountebankery (n.) The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
Clearing :: Clearing (n.) A method adopted by banks and bankers for making an exchange of checks held by each against the others, and settling differences of accounts..
Canker :: Canker (n.) A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off..
Bourse :: Bourse (n.) An exchange, or place where merchants, bankers, etc., meet for business at certain hours; esp., the Stock Exchange of Paris..
Encanker :: Encanker (v. t.) To canker.
Cankered :: Cankered (imp. & p. p.) of Canke.
Flankering :: Flankering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flanke.
Cankerous :: Cankerous (a.) Affecting like a canker.
Erosion :: Erosion (n.) The state of being eaten away; corrosion; canker.
Spanker :: Spanker (n.) One who spanks, or anything used as an instrument for spanking..
Ankerite :: Ankerite (n.) A mineral closely related to dolomite, but containing iron..
Canker Rash :: Canker rash () A form of scarlet fever characterized by ulcerated or putrid sore throat.
Burse :: Burse (n.) An exchange, for merchants and bankers, in the cities of continental Europe. Same as Bourse..
Canker Bloom :: Canker bloom () The bloom or blossom of the wild rose or dog-rose.
Mountebankism :: Mountebankism (n.) The practices of a mountebank; mountebankery.
Geometrid :: Geometrid (n.) One of numerous genera and species of moths, of the family Geometridae; -- so called because their larvae (called loopers, measuring worms, spanworms, and inchworms) creep in a looping manner, as if measuring. Many of the species are injurious to agriculture, as the cankerworms..
Water Canker :: Water canker () See Canker, n., 1..
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