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n. [ From clink; cf. D. clinker a brick which is so hard that it makes a sonorous sound, from clinken to clink. Cf. Clinkstone. ] 1. A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Scoria or vitrified incombustible matter, formed in a grate or furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified or burnt matter ejected from a volcano; slag. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A scale of oxide of iron, formed in forging. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A kind of brick. See Dutch clinker, under Dutch. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Naut.) Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. See Lapstreak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An engraver of dies for stamping coins, medals, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who drinks; as, the effects of tea on the drinker; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard. [ 1913 Webster ]

Drinker moth (Zool.), a large British moth (Odonestis potatoria). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An eyelash. [ A child's word. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who speculates or forms opinions independently of the authority of others; esp., in the sphere or religion, one who forms opinions independently of the authority of revelation or of the church; an unbeliever; -- a term assumed by deists and skeptics in the eighteenth century. [ 1913 Webster ]

Atheist is an old-fashioned word: I'm a freethinker, child. Addison.

Syn. -- Infidel; skeptic; unbeliever. See Infidel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, inks; especially, in printing, the pad or roller which inks the type. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who prinks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who skates at a rink. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who shrinks; one who withdraws from danger. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who serves liquor; a tapster. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, stinks. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Any one of the several species of large antarctic petrels which feed on blubber and carrion and have an offensive odor, as the giant fulmar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A laborer. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who thinks; especially and chiefly, one who thinks in a particular manner; as, a close thinker; a deep thinker; a coherent thinker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Tink, because the tinker's way of proclaiming his trade is to beat a kettle, or because in his work he makes a tinkling noise. Johnson. ] 1. A mender of brass kettles, pans, and other metal ware. “Tailors and tinkers.” Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One skilled in a variety of small mechanical work. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Ordnance) A small mortar on the end of a staff. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Zool.) (a) A young mackerel about two years old. (b) The chub mackerel. (c) The silversides. (d) A skate. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Zool.) The razor-billed auk. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Tinkered p. pr. & vb. n. Tinkering. ] To mend or solder, as metal wares; hence, more generally, to mend. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To busy one's self in mending old kettles, pans, etc.; to play the tinker; to be occupied with small mechanical works. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or work of a tinker. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. After the manner of a tinker. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. (Zool.) The common guillemot. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Undertapster. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. un- + thinker. ] A person who does not think, or does not think wisely. [ 1913 Webster ]