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Definition of Cankery
1. a. Like a canker; full of canker.
Definition of Cankery
1. Adjective. Like a canker. ¹
2. Adjective. Full of canker. ¹
3. Adjective. Surly; sore; malignant. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cankery
1. crabbed [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cankery
Literary usage of Cankery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Epitome of Mr. Forsyth's Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit by William Forsyth, William Cobbett (1804)
"AN old cankery apple-tree headed down four years ago, now bearing great plenty
of fine ... The part of the trunk below a shews the cankery state of the bark ..."
2. An Encyclopædia of Gardening: Comprising the Theory and Practice of by John Claudius Loudon (1835)
"... to reform or remove any casual irregularity from cross-placed or very crowded
branches ; aud take away all cankery and decayed wood. 5008. ..."
3. Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London by Horticultural Society of London (1822)
"The insects are, however, by no means exterminated; little white clusters of them
are to be seen in fissures of the bark, or in cankery places. Aug. 29. ..."
4. The London Medical Gazette (1842)
"During their afflictions the intellects of all preserved their integrities ;
lastly, there was the " cankery" taste of the mother, tho " metallic" taste of ..."
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