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Backer vs Balker - What's the difference?

backer | balker |

As nouns the difference between backer and balker

is that backer is baker while balker is one who, or that which balks.

backer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who, or that which, s; especially one who backs a person or thing in a contest.

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • (phonetics) (back)
    • Martin J. Ball and Nicole Müller (2005), Phonetics for communication disorders , p. 174:
  • :: /e?/ This diphthong is a glide from mid front tongue position toward a higher, backer position similar to that of /?/.
    • English agent nouns

    balker

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who, or that which balks.
  • A person who stands on a rock or eminence to observe shoals of herring, etc., and to give notice to the men in boats which way they pass.

    • Synonyms

    * conder * huer (Webster 1913)