'Sinker' definitions:
Definition of 'sinker'
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Definition of 'Sinker'
From: GCIDE
- Sinker \Sink"er\, n. One who, or that which, sinks. Specifically: (a) A weight on something, as on a fish line, to sink it. (b) In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles. [1913 Webster]
- Dividing sinker, in knitting machines, a sinker between two jack sinkers and acting alternately with them.
- Jack sinker. See under Jack, n.
- Sinker bar. (a) In knitting machines, a bar to which one set of the sinkers is attached. (b) In deep well boring, a heavy bar forming a connection between the lifting rope and the boring tools, above the jars. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sinker'
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- apple fritter,
- beignet,
- beignet aux pommes,
- biscuit,
- bismarck,
- bob,
- bowl,
- Brussels biscuit,
- cast,
- change of pace,
- change-up,
- chuck,
- chunk,
- cracker,
- cruller,
- curve,
- doughnut,
- downcurve,
- fastball,
- fastnacht,
- fling,
- flip,
- forward pass,
- friedcake,
- fritter,
- graham cracker,
- hardtack,
- heave,
- hurl,
- incurve,
- knuckleball,
- lateral,
- lateral pass,
- lead,
- lob,
- Melba toast,
- olykoek,
- outcurve,
- pass,
- peg,
- pilot biscuit,
- pitch,
- plumb,
- plummet,
- pretzel,
- put,
- raised doughnut,
- rusk,
- saltine,
- sandbag,
- screwball,
- sea biscuit,
- serve,
- service,
- ship biscuit,
- shot-put,
- shy,
- slider,
- sling,
- soda cracker,
- spitball,
- spitter,
- throw,
- toss,
- twister,
- upcurve,
- wafer,
- weight,
- zwieback