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Definition of Barkers
1. barker [n] - See also: barker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Barkers
Literary usage of Barkers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Manufacture of Iron in All Ages: And Particularly in the by James Moore Swank (1892)
"... by Lambert Despard (a founder) and the family of barkers, his associates, ...
The enterprise of Despard and the barkers was speedily followed by the ..."
2. Genealogical and Family History of Western New York: A Record of the by William Richard Cutter (1912)
"There is a group of barkers about Concord, Massachusetts, who are descended from
Francis, who settled there in 1646, while those settled about Rowley ..."
3. The History of Burke and Hare and of the Resurrectionist Times: A Fragment by George Macgregor, George Mac Gregor (1884)
"The following are the confessions of Bishop and Williams, the London " barkers,"
an account of whose case is given in ..."
4. York Plays: The Plays Performed by the Crafts Or Mysteries of York on the by Lucy Toulmin Smith (1885)
"... I. THE barkers. The Creation, and the Fall of Lucifer. [PERSONS OF THE PLAY.
DEUS. ... barkers ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by John Morley, Mowbray Morris, David Masson, George Grove (1891)
"barkers' has been a spot celebrated in local annals for something like a century.
... barkers' consists of a single house and a blacksmith's shop. ..."
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