Sinker vs Skinker - What's the difference?
sinker | skinker |
(fishing) A weight used in fishing to cause the line or net to sink
(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
(construction) Sinker nail, used for framing in current construction.
(slang) A doughnut; a biscuit.
* 1926 , Edna Ferber, Show Boat: A Novel , page 268
* 2001 , Gerald J. Prokopowicz, All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862 , page 148
* 2003 , William W. Johnstone, Ambush Of The Mountain Man , page 168
In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles.
As nouns the difference between sinker and skinker
is that sinker is a weight used in fishing to cause the line or net to sink while skinker is one who serves liquor; a tapster.sinker
English
Noun
(en noun)- Hook the sinker onto this loop.
- His sinkers drew one ground ball after another.
- Of the fifty cents, ten went for the glassy shoeshine; twenty-five for a boutonniere; ten for coffee and sinkers at the Cockeyed Bakery.
- 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 .
- "Gonna have to dip them sinkers in coffee to get 'em soft enough to chew," Jason Biggs said, grinning.