What does "barker" mean?
Barker: One who stands at the doors of shops to urg [Cant, Eng.]
Additional senses
- 2.A pistol. [Slang] Dickens.
- 3.(Zoöl.) The spotted redshank.
- 4.One who strips trees of their bark. BARKER'S MILL Bark"er's mill`. Etym: [From Dr. Barker, the inventor.] A machine, invented in the 17th century, worked by a form of reaction wheel. The water flows into a vertical tube and gushes from apertures in hollow horizontal arms, causing the machine to revolve on its axis.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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