Siker vs Saker - What's the difference?
siker | saker |
: certain
: secure
* 1847 (publication date), James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Dictionary of Archaisms and Provincialisms from the Fourteenth Century Vol. II. , pages 741 and 743:
: certainly
: securely
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 a noun siker
is gluten (a composite of the proteins gliadin and glutenin in plants like wheat).As an adjective saker is
safe, secure.siker
English
Alternative forms
* sicker * siccer * siccarAdjective
- "That schip had a ful siker mast,
- And a sayl strong and large."