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Knacker   Listen
noun
Knacker  n.  
1.
One who makes knickknacks, toys, etc.
2.
One of two or more pieces of bone or wood held loosely between the fingers, and struck together by moving the hand; called also clapper.





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"Knacker" Quotes from Famous Books



... ye filthy sneak-thieves, mud-larking crab-catchers, pitchy-fingered slipper-botchers, huddling opium-eaters, swindling knacker-sellers, petty hucksters, ye ragged, filthy, whey-faced tipplers!—I, Abdi, the Kapudan Pasha, say it to you, and I only regret that I have not the tongue of a Giaour of the Hungarian race that I might be able to heap upon you all the curses and reproaches that your conduct deserves, ye dogs! ...
— Halil the Pedlar - A Tale of Old Stambul • Mr Jkai
... error, and have mistaken the hospitable mansion for a good, old-fashioned inn, such as have faded from this earth since the last mail coach and prancing tits took their last melancholy journey to the knacker's yard. ...
— Lady Audley's Secret • Mary Elizabeth Braddon


Words linked to "Knacker" :   butcher, slaughterer


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