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Definitioner
Substantiv
- Someone or something who barks.
- (obsolete, 1811) A person that removes the bark from wood, or prepares it for use in tanning.
- A person employed to solicit customers by calling out to passersby, e.g. at a carnival.
- A machine used to remove the bark from wood.
- A shelf-talker.
- (video games) A video game mode where the action is demonstrated to entice someone to play the game.
- (slang, dated) A pistol.
- The spotted redshank.
Exempel
- My neighbor's dog is a constant barker that keeps me awake at night.
- Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
- Bob had amassed a considerable stockpile of double entendres from his days working as a barker for a strip joint.
- The barker mode of the arcade video game convinced the teenager to spend a quarter.
- ...Parkin, the Oxford Street gunmaker, sent me a brace of barkers in silver mountings, with my initials engraved—good for trade, I imagine.
- The profession of barker has been made largely obsolete by the introduction of more effective tanning agents, but it lives on as a surname.
- Run these logs through the barker so we can use them as fence posts.
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