Dayer vs Daker - What's the difference?
dayer | daker |
(in combination) Something lasting a specified number of days.
* 1992 , Louisville Automobile Club, American Automobile Association, Home & away in Kentucky (volumes 13-14, page 40)
* 1996 , Rayford Clayton Reddell, Full bloom: thoughts from an opinionated gardener (page 66)
(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.
As nouns the difference between dayer and daker
is that dayer is something lasting a specified number of days while 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.dayer
English
Noun
(en noun)- I envy the Marilyn Fishers of the world who have the time — and the money — to embark on 45 cruises, the least of which a seven-dayer .
- Blossoms that flower atop willowy weedy stems such as forget-me-nots, delphiniums, and gauras should be thought of as two-dayers ; they don't draw water well or retain preservatives.
daker
English
Alternative forms
* dakirNoun
(en noun)- (Burrill)