The profession of barker has been made largely obsolete by the introduction of more effective tanning agents, but it lives on as a surname.
Run these logs through the barker so we can use them as fence posts.
Bob had amassed a considerable stockpile of double entendres from his days working as a barker for a strip joint.
My neighbor's dog is a constant barker that keeps me awake at night.
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).