sinker
sinker
Definition
sinker (-kər)
noun
- a person or thing that sinks
- a lead weight used in fishing
- ☆ Informal a doughnut
- ☆ Baseball a pitched ball that drops downward sharply as it reaches home plate
sinker
Synonyms
sinker
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- pit: The original sinkers of the pits ( about 40 in number ) had been lodged in one dwelling house, ' Y Lluest ' .
Adjective modifier
- fast: A number 10 line weighs the same whether its a fast sinker or a floater.
- net: The conical-shaped stones belong to the same period, and were used, it is thought, as net sinkers or loom weights.
- lead: Lead poisoning continues to be a danger to swans as well as other waterfowl due to the ingestion of lead fishing sinkers.
- Gemini: The Gemini sinker will be noticeably harder to push.
Modifies a noun
- weight: Valeport also offer a range of streamlined lead or gun-metal sinker weights, from 7 to 90kg.
Noun used with modifier
- die: I fussed and scraped with a combination of die sinkers flies and a surgical scalpel.
- mine: A number of moored mine sinkers were also recovered.
- egg: Each egg sinker is carefully designed to balance Fox pike floats.
- master: Messrs. Emerson, Shields, and Wilkinson were master sinkers working under Mr. Coulson.
Browse dictionary entries near sinker
- sinkage
- sink in
- sink
- Sinitic
- sinistrous
- sinistrorse
- sinistrodextral
- sinistro-
- sinistral
- sinister
- sinkhole
- Sinkiang
- sinking
- sinking fund
- sinless
- Sinn Fein
- sinner
- sinning
- Sino-Japanese
- Sino-
