Daker vs Saker - What's the difference?
daker | saker |
(obsolete, legal, UK, Scotland) A measure of certain commodities by number, usually ten or twelve, but sometimes twenty; as, a daker of hides consisted of ten skins; a daker of gloves of ten pairs.
* 1866: The dicker, or daker, was ten, and is found, though generally at later times than the period before us, as a measure for hides and gloves. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 1, p. 171.
A falcon ( ) native of Southern Europe and Asia.
A medium cannon slightly smaller than a culverin developed during the early 17th century.
* 1663 ,
*:Of warlike engines he was author, / Devised for quick despatch of slaughter: / The cannon, blunderbuss, and saker , / He was th' inventor of, and maker: [...]
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As nouns the difference between daker and saker
is that daker is a measure of certain commodities by number, usually ten or twelve, but sometimes twenty; as, a daker of hides consisted of ten skins; a daker of gloves of ten pairs while saker is a falcon (Falco cherrug) native of Southern Europe and Asia.daker
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Alternative forms
* dakirNoun
(en noun)- (Burrill)