cawker
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[edit]Noun
[edit]cawker (plural cawkers)
- Alternative form of calker
- 1828, David Macbeth Moir, The Life of Mansie Wauch[1]:
- Hae, man, there's a cawker to keep your heart warm; and set down that bottle," quoth I, wiping the saw-dust affn't with my hand, "to get a toast; I'se warrant it for Deacon Jaffrey's best brown stout."