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noun

Sinker n. One who, or that which, sinks. Specifically:

(a)

A weight on something, as on a fish line, to sink it.

(b)

In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles.

Dividing sinker, in knitting machines, a sinker between two jack sinkers and acting alternately with them.

Jack sinker. See under Jack, n.

Sinker bar.

(a)

In knitting machines, a bar to which one set of the sinkers is attached.

(b)

In deep well boring, a heavy bar forming a connection between the lifting rope and the boring tools, above the jars.

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Etymology of 'Sinker'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... jam tin or a broken bottle, spoors of the rude hoofs of civilisation, you might search for in vain. As difficult would it be to find either as a fellow to the nugget of gold which legend tells was used by a naked black as a sinker when he fished with hook of pearl shell out there on the edge of ...

— The Confessions of a Beachcomber • E J Banfield

... who also employs a piercer and name cutter. 12. finisher, who employs a wheel and fusee cutter, and other workers in smaller branches. 13. gilder is divided into two, viz. gilder and brusher. 14. glass and hands, the glass employs two, viz. blower and maker; hand maker employs die sinker, finisher, &c. 15. fitter in, who overlooks the whole, fits hands on, &c. The above 15 branches are ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 13, No. 354, Saturday, January 31, 1829. • Various

... mud ball!" assented Cleo. "But this is different. Ugh! I shall never, never brag of clean hands again after this. There, my fish is tied on the sinker; now ...

— The Girl Scouts at Sea Crest - The Wig Wag Rescue • Lillian Garis

... the attitude of Secretary Garrison that there was to be no meeting of minds between the President and his Secretary of War on the matter of preparedness. Their views could not be reconciled, and when the President refused to support Garrison's programme, hook, line, and sinker, the Secretary tendered his resignation, which the President under the circumstances readily accepted. Immediately the friends of Garrison declared that the Administration had lost its strongest man and that it was now on the way ...

— Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him • Joseph P. Tumulty

... me that if I refuse to do so I am to be lashed up, neck and heels, and hove overboard with a sinker attached to my neck some fine night when the women and children are all below. Do you approve of ...

— Overdue - The Story of a Missing Ship • Harry Collingwood

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