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Definition of Hankers
1. hanker [v] - See also: hanker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hankers
Literary usage of Hankers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by Anna Lorraine Guthrie, Marion A. Knight, H.W. Wilson Company, Estella E. Painter (1920)
"hankers M 98:427-33, 689-98 Ар, Je •19 Cost keeping. See Cost accounting Cost of
education. See Education—Cost Cost of living Cash and social values of ..."
2. The Comic History of the United States: From a Period Prior to the Discovery by John D. Sherwood (1870)
"Horse-Neck and Putnam's Home-Stretch down it.— Count d'Estaing's Yachting.
— Spain hankers for Gibraltar. —England as a Pawnbroker.—Paul Jones and his Whip. ..."
3. The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical by John Britton, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees, Thomas Hood, John Harris, Edward Wedlake Brayley (1815)
"... the civilized world for its rich hankers, &c. turns out of this streel opposite
Fen- church It is dedicated to the sister of ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law and Practice Relating to Vendors and Purchasers of by Joseph Henry Dart, William Barber, Sheldon, William Robert, 1857- (1888)
"XIII. lord's fine, steward's fees, and his own professional charges in a single
cheque, which on being paid into his hankers, was retained by them in part ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and (1823)
"JANUS wat also the name of a street in Rome, inhabited for the most part by
hankers and usurers. It was to called from two statues of Janus which were ..."
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