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Sicker vs Sinker - What's the difference?

sicker | sinker |

As an adjective sicker

is (sick) or sicker can be (obsolete|outside|dialects) certain.

As an adverb sicker

is (obsolete|outside|dialects) certainly.

As a verb sicker

is (mining|uk|dialect) to percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack.

As a noun sinker is

(fishing) a weight used in fishing to cause the line or net to sink.

sicker

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

(head)
  • (sick)

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * siker * siccer * siccar

    Adjective

  • (obsolete, outside, dialects) certain
  • (obsolete, outside, dialects) secure

    • Adverb

  • (obsolete, outside, dialects) certainly
  • (obsolete, outside, dialects) securely

    • Derived terms

    * sickerly * sickerhood

    Etymology 3

    Alternative forms

    * sigger * zigger

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (mining, UK, dialect) To percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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    sinker

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (fishing) A weight used in fishing to cause the line or net to sink
    • Hook the sinker onto this loop.
  • (baseball) Any of several high speed pitches that have a downward motion near the plate; a two-seam fastball, a split-finger fastball, or a forkball
    • His sinkers drew one ground ball after another.
  • (construction) Sinker nail, used for framing in current construction.
  • (slang) A doughnut; a biscuit.
  • * 1926 , Edna Ferber, Show Boat: A Novel , page 268
    • Of the fifty cents, ten went for the glassy shoeshine; twenty-five for a boutonniere; ten for coffee and sinkers at the Cockeyed Bakery.
  • * 2001 , Gerald J. Prokopowicz, All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862 , page 148
    • they improvised by opening a barrel of flour and letting each man dump in a quart of water (if he had one) and scoop out a handful of dough to bake into rock-hard sinkers .
  • * 2003 , William W. Johnstone, Ambush Of The Mountain Man , page 168
    • "Gonna have to dip them sinkers in coffee to get 'em soft enough to chew," Jason Biggs said, grinning.
  • In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles.

    • See also

    * (baseball pitches) curveball, slider, cut fastball, two-seam fastball, split-finger fastball, screwball, knuckleball

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