barker
IPA: bˈɑrkɝ
noun
- Someone or something who barks.
- A person employed to solicit customers by calling out to passersby, e.g. at a carnival.
- 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.
- (historical) A person who removes needed or valuable tree bark, as on a cinnamon or cinchona plantation.
- (obsolete) A tanner.
- A machine used to remove unneeded bark from wood.
- An English surname originating as an occupation.
- A number of places in the United States:
- A town in Broome County, New York.
- A village in Niagara County, New York.
- An unincorporated community in Harris County, Texas.
- An unincorporated community in Wetzel County, West Virginia.
- A village in the Colonia department, Uruguay.
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Examples of "barker" in Sentences
- The second barker is a gargoyle.
- I agree with BK and Barker on this.
- Barker was an ardent prohibitionist.
- Barker was a golfer and a fisherman.
- Chevron is the trading name for The Barker Company.
- Claiming to have amnesia, the man joins the troupe as a barker.
- Joseph Barker Stearns was the inventor of the duplex system of telegraphy.
- Barker confirmed the sentences even before the instigation from Montgomery.
- Barker was especially interested in the peach, the nectarine and the apricot.
- "Anyone who uses the term 'barker' is betraying their ignorance," Baker said.
- She is the daughter of the poet George Barker and the novelist Elspeth Barker.
- Forensic investigators have been pouring over the parched ground of this so-called barker ranch.
- Baker said he has a bone to pick with people who use the term "carnival barker" and admitted to being shocked when the President singled out his industry.
- So we believe that really this ABThera system will cannibalize what's called the barker system, which is really the standard of care for treating those patients today.
- A 'barker' is a man who jumps onto a big tree after a chopper has felled it, and strips the bark off with his axe, so that the trunk can be easily hauled over the snow.
- However, Zigun -- who says he voted for Obama in 2008 and will probably support him again in 2012 -- does believe the President misspoke when he used the term "carnival barker."
- After three days 'parley I had just concluded my bargain with his breechless majesty, when a "barker" greeted me with the cheerless message that the "Aguila" was surrounded by man-of-war boats!
- Gradually it dawned on Bob that this man was acting in the capacity of "barker" -- that with quite admirable perspicacity and accuracy, he was engaged in selecting from the countless throngs the few possible purchasers for Lucky Lands.
- I had many a friend among the villagers, both there and at Bangalang, and when the "barker" came from the Isles _de Loss_ with the news of my capture and misery, the settlement had been keenly astir until it was known that Mongo Téodore was safe and sound among his protectors.
- The "puller-in" and the "barker" of Baxter Street and the Bowery are mere sucking doves compared with the vendors of Jerusalem: they will get in front of you and pull you into their shops, and the only way you can prevent an assault is to jump to the other side of the street or dive into an alley.