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.
- She is the daughter of the poet George Barker and the novelist Elspeth Barker.
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