nicker

IPA: nˈɪkɝ

(Britain, slang) Pound sterling.
A soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.
A snigger or suppressed laugh.
(obsolete, slang) One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with halfpence.
The cutting lip which projects downward at the edge of a boring bit and cuts a circular groove in the wood to limit the size of the hole that is bored.
(informal) Someone who nicks (steals) something, a thief.
A type of mythological sea creature or sea monster; also, a water sprite; a nix or nixie; a mermaid or merman.
(euphemistic, vulgar, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) nigger.

Examples of "nicker" in Sentences

He broke off at sound of the unmistakable nicker of
Brown's "nicker" without acknowledgment, and lost it.
Generally a loud noise, described as a squeal followed by a nicker.
From far, far above came a familiar nicker, one shadowed with worry.
Near the end of the season Cheryl started Hoochie Mama a nicker company.
-- A tropical plant, bearing the seeds known as nicker nuts, or bonduc nuts.
Between his labored breaths, he managed a soft nicker, a depositing of his trust in her.
A sudden, joyous nicker from without put the match between the pages of the frog book, and, while Oh
Her approach elicited another resonant nicker from Rune, and when she set the basket at his feet he eagerly tore into the grain.
The air was heavy with lilac fragrance, and from the distance, as he rode between the lilac hedges, Graham heard the throaty nicker of Mountain
My proceeded partly to dress his master in bed, including socks and shoes, the master, twisting partly on his side, stared out in the direction of the nicker.
The terms nicker for a one-pound note and half a nicker for a ten-shilling note are New Zealand expressions that arrived in Britain, and they were also widely used by counterfeiters in the underworld.