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One who, or that which, inks; especially, in printing, the pad or roller which inks the type.

hence, whatever obstructs sight or discernment. Nor bigots who but one way see, through blinkers of authority. M. Green.

A kind of brick. See Dutch klinker, under Dutch.

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.

An engraver of dies for stamping coins, medals, etc.

One who drinks; as, the effects of tea on the drinker; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard. Drinker moth (Zoöl.), a large British moth (Odonestis potatoria).

An eyelash. [A child's word.]

sts and skeptics in the eighteenth century. Atheist is an old-fashioned word: I'm a freethinker, child. Addison.

One who prinks.

One who skates at a rink. [Colloq.]

One who shrinks; one who withdraws from danger.

, 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)…

One who serves liquor; a tapster.

One who, or that which, stinks.

A laborer. [Obs.] Chaucer.

who thinks; especially and chiefly, one who thinks in a particular manner; as, a close thinker; a deep thinker; a coherent thinker.

A mender of brass kettles, pans, and other metal ware. "Tailors and tinkers." Piers Plowman.

The act or work of a tinker.

After the manner of a tinker. [R.]

The common guillemot. [Prov. Eng.]