Lexicographical Neighbors of Cronker
Literary usage of Cronker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1895)
"I am always a cronker, you know, but my ailments are of a small kind, their chief
symptoms being a muddled brain ; and as my pen is not of the true literary ..."
2. Publications by Hampshire Record Society, Winchester, Winchester Hampshire Record Society, American peace society, Algernon Sidney Crapsey, Ernest Howard Crosby, W. Evans Darby, John Hyde De Forest, Charles Edward Jefferson, Augustine Jones, Mrs. L. J. Mead, J. H. Ral (1894)
"Endorsed with mem. of the witnesses of the delivery of seisin by Thomas Trigge.
nd Certificate by Robert cronker that it appears by the "extracts" of Win ..."
3. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"cronker (tailors), the foreman. Crook (thieves and popular). On the crook, by
dishonest means ; the reverse of " square." Got on the crook, stolen. ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1843)
"... Mrn>-cronker! swamp-digger! Dirt-delver! be still! See!—men with pickaxes,
Descending the hill! ( Then cease thy dull music, And hushed be thy cry ..."
5. Institutes of American Law by John Bouvier (1882)
"... adds both labor and materials to the property of the employer already existing.
In this case it 81 Dearborn v. Dearborn, 15 Mass. 316 ; cronker »>. ..."
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