Dunker
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Dunker![]() ![]() Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 Dunbird \Dun"bird`\, n. [Named from its color.] (Zool.) (a) The pochard; -- called also dunair, and dunker, or dun-curre. (b) An American duck; the ruddy duck. [1913 Webster] Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 Dunker \Dun"ker\, prop. n. [G. tunken to dip.] One of a religious denomination whose tenets and practices are mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the Quakers; -- called also Tunkers, Dunkards, Dippers, and, by themselves, Brethren, and German Baptists, and they call their denomination the Church of the Brethren. [1913 Webster] Note: The denomination was founded in Germany in 1708, but after a few years the members emigrated to the United States; they were opposed to military service and taking legal oaths, and practiced trine immersion. [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5] Seventh-day Dunkers, a sect which separated from the Dunkers and formed a community, in 1728. They keep the seventh day or Saturday as the Sabbath. [1913 Webster] Source: WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
dunker
n 1: an eater who dips food into a liquid before eating it; "he
was a dunker--he couldn't eat a doughnut without a cup of
coffee to dunk it in"
2: a basketball player who is able to make dunk shots
3: an adherent of Baptistic doctrines (who practice baptism by
immersion) [syn: Dunker, Dunkard, Tunker]
Matching Word(s) Bunker Hunker Junker Tunker ducker Dunder Dunner Dunter dunkers bunker hunker junker tunker
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