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Sinker vs Swinker - What's the difference?

sinker | swinker |

As nouns the difference between sinker and swinker

is that sinker is (fishing) a weight used in fishing to cause the line or net to sink while swinker is a toiler; a labourer.

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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    swinker

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A toiler; a labourer.
  • *1845 , Thomas Ignatius M. Forster, Richard Gough, Epistolarium :
    • Ye are twin swinkers in this nether field One to prolong, the other to expand, My landmark and my clock; but both must yield, To the destroying angel's flaming wand, [...]
  • *1891 , Harper's magazine - Volume 83 - Page 786:
    • Tosspots and swinkers' were they then; tosspots and ' swinkers are they still.
  • *2010 , Eileen Power, Medieval English Nunneries :
    • [...] whether they were quizzed by "those idle gallants who haunt taverns, gay and handsome," or hobnobbed with "travellers and tinkers, sweaters and swinkers ," the alehouse was assuredly no place for nuns.
    (Chaucer)

    Related terms

    * (l) (Webster 1913)