Knacker

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Chiefly British A person who buys worn-out or old livestock and slaughters them to sell the meat or hides.
  • n. Chiefly British A person who buys discarded structures and dismantles them to sell the materials.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. One who makes knickknacks, toys, etc.
  • n. One of two or more pieces of bone or wood held loosely between the fingers, and struck together by moving the hand; a clapper.
  • n. A harness maker.
  • n. One who slaughters and (especially) renders worn-out livestock (especially horses) and sells their flesh, bones and hides.
  • n. One who dismantles old ships, houses etc., and sells their components.
  • n. A member of the Travelling Community; a Gypsy.
  • n. A person of lower social class; a chav, skanger or scobe.
  • v. To tire out, become exhausted.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who makes knickknacks, toys, etc.
  • n. One of two or more pieces of bone or wood held loosely between the fingers, and struck together by moving the hand; -- called also clapper.
  • n. a harness maker.
  • n. One who slaughters worn-out horses and sells their flesh for dog's meat.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. That which knacks or knocks; in the plural, two pieces of wood or bone used as a plaything by boys, who strike them together by moving the hand; castanets; bones.
  • n. A maker of knacks, toys, or small work.
  • n. A collar- and harness-maker, employed chiefly by farmers.
  • n. Acolliers' horse.
  • n. One whose occupation is the slaughtering of diseased or useless horses; also, one who deals in such horses, whether for use or slaughter.
  • n. A man who dismantles and sells the materials of old houses, ships, etc.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. someone who buys up old horses for slaughter
  • n. someone who buys old buildings or ships and breaks them up to recover the materials in them
  • Verb Form
    knackered    knackering    knackers   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    slaughterer    butcher    wrecker   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    clapper   
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