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noun

Nicker n.

One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with half-pence. (Cant)

The cutting lip which projects downward at the edge of a boring bit and cuts a circular groove in the wood to limit the size of the hole that is bored.

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Etymology of 'Nicker'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Nicker" Quotes from Famous Books

... to give Dick Dean my mouse, and Tommy Robson my nicker, and share all my buttons among the chaps in my dormitory; and then I've six pieces of string and a pair ...

— Quicksilver - The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel • George Manville Fenn

... grassy space, bordered by green trees. Again he turned his head and gave his intelligent call. Why did not his master respond? Why did he linger behind when here was grass and water—surely water, for the smell of it was fresh and sweet. But it was well he called, for his friendly nicker fell on ...

— The Eye of Dread • Payne Erskine

... manly service; and that the Baron of Avenel never rides with fewer than. ten jackmen at his back, and oftener with fifty, bodin in all that effeirs to war as if they were to do battle for a kingdom, and mounted on nags that nicker at the clash of the sword as if it were the clank of the lid of a corn-chest—I say, when ye have computed all this, ye may guess what course will ...

— The Monastery • Sir Walter Scott

... went over there and found the Captain an' told him he'd come after old Drennon. The Captain said to describe him an' Will said, "Captain, he's a chestnut earl named Drennon. If'n I whistl' a certain way he' nicker ...

— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States - From Interviews with Former Slaves - Kentucky Narratives • Works Projects Administration

Words linked to "Nicker" : cry, let loose, neigh, let out, nicker nut, emit, whinny