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Definition of barker in English Turkish dictionary
- bağıran kimse
- kabuk soyan
- çığırtkan
- havlayan
- dükkân veya eğlence yeri önünde bağıran adam
- bağıran insan veya köpek
- (Matbaacılık, Basımcılık) kabuk soyucu
- thread barker
- (Mekanik) dişli perdahlama makinesi
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Definition of barker in English English dictionary
- A person that removes the bark from wood, or prepares it for use in tanning
The profession of barker has been made largely obsolete by the introduction of more effective tanning agents, but it lives on as a surname.
- A machine used to remove the bark from wood
Run these logs through the barker so we can use them as fence posts.
- A person employed to solicit customers by calling out to passersby, e.g. at a carnival
Bob had amassed a considerable stockpile of double entendres from his days working as a barker for a strip joint.
- Someone or something who barks
My neighbor's dog is a constant barker that keeps me awake at night.
- {n} one that barks or coughs, a snarler
- An English surname
- in the past, someone who stood outside a place where there was a circus or fair shouting to people to come in
- An animal that barks; hence, any one who clamors unreasonably
- The spotted redshank
- {i} machine that removes bark from trees; animal which barks; person who attracts clients by speaking loudly
- One who strips trees of their bark
- someone who stands in front of a show (as at a carnival) and gives a loud colorful sales talk to potential customers
- informal terms for dogs
- A pistol
- One who stands at the doors of shops to urg&?; passers by to make purchases
- Bishop Barker
- A very tall glass of beer
1898: For a Bishop Barker he would compose a quatrain on any subject – a person preferred – suggested by the man who tipped him the drink — short story Dictionary Ned by Price Warung in his collection Half-Crown Bob and Tales of the Riverine, 1898 (quoted by Wannan).
- Harley Granville-Barker
- born Nov. 25, 1877, London, Eng. died Aug. 31, 1946, Paris, France British producer, playwright, and critic. An actor from age 15, he directed his own first play, The Marrying of Ann Leete, in 1901. As comanager of the Court Theatre (1904-07) he produced many of George Bernard Shaw's early plays as well as plays by Henrik Ibsen, Maurice Maeterlinck, and John Galsworthy, and also produced his own The Voysey Inheritance (1905) and Waste (1907). He influenced 20th-century theatre with his naturalistic stagings of Shakespeare's plays, which emphasized continuous action on an open stage and rapid, lightly stressed speech. He moved to Paris after World War I and there wrote Prefaces to Shakespeare (1927-46), a series of books of criticism
- Ralph Barker Gustafson
- born Aug. 16, 1909, Lime Ridge, near Sherbrooke, Que., Can. died May 29, 1995, North Hatley Canadian poet. Gustafson attended the University of Oxford; he settled in New York after World War II but later returned to Canada. His work shows a development from traditional form and manner to an elliptical style reflecting the influence of Anglo-Saxon verse and the metrical experiments of Gerard Manley Hopkins. His later works, usually considered his better writings, include Rivers Among Rocks (1960), Conflicts of Spring (1981), and Shadows in the Grass (1991). He also published collections of short stories
- barkers
- plural of barker
- granville-barker
- English actor and dramatist and critic and director noted for his productions of Shakespearean plays (1877-1946)
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bark·erTurkish pronunciation
bärkırPronunciation
/ˈbärkər/ /ˈbɑːrkɜr/
Etymology
[ 'bär-k&r ] (noun.) 14th century. From bark (“(dog noise)”) + -er.Resimler
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