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noun

Sinker n. One who, or that which, sinks. Specifically:

(a)

A weight on something, as on a fish line, to sink it.

(b)

In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles.

Dividing sinker, in knitting machines, a sinker between two jack sinkers and acting alternately with them.

Jack sinker. See under Jack, n.

Sinker bar.

(a)

In knitting machines, a bar to which one set of the sinkers is attached.

(b)

In deep well boring, a heavy bar forming a connection between the lifting rope and the boring tools, above the jars.

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Etymology of 'Sinker'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sinker" Quotes from Famous Books

... neighbouring twigs, and then return, this time more enterprising. Envy grows keener; those who but now were cautious become turbulent and aggressive, and would willingly drive from the spring the well-sinker who has ...

— Social Life in the Insect World • J. H. Fabre

... beauty and wealth and culture and remarkable innocence. She had dangled about on mama's rod and line for a year or so, but the fish wouldn't bite. For that reason I grabbed the rod from the old lady and put on a bait of silence and a sinker, and moved to deep water and began to ...

— 'Charge It' - Keeping Up With Harry • Irving Bacheller

... boy wandered farther down the creek. A "sure 'nough" fishhook took the place of the bent pin and a real "boughten" line, with a sinker, was tied to the hook though he still used the slender willow rods. And, now, he sometimes brought home a fish or two from the deeper water down in the pasture lot; and no success in after life ...

— Their Yesterdays • Harold Bell Wright

... along the shore, found the old bleached shoulder-blade of a bear. With his knife he carved out a rude fish-hook, and, taking the strings of his moccasins, and those of others, he formed a line. A piece of red flannel was used as bait, and a small stone served as a sinker. With this primitive arrangement he began fishing. His method was to stand on a rock and throw the hook out as far as his line would permit, and then draw it ...

— By Canoe and Dog-Train • Egerton Ryerson Young

... only one who had made no remark; but all the same he seemed to be busy. They saw him dive into a pocket, and what should he fetch out brut a stout fish line wound around a bobbin, and with a hook attached. This he immediately began unrolling so that the end carrying hook and sinker fell down toward the bottom of ...

— The, Boy Scouts on Sturgeon Island - or Marooned Among the Game-fish Poachers • Herbert Carter

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