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Definition of Sharkers
1. sharker [n] - See also: sharker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sharkers
Literary usage of Sharkers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rambles in America, Past and Present by Alfred J. Pairpoint (1891)
"When a whaling vessel is sighted, outside or in the inner harbor, the "sharkers,"
as they are termed, put off in sailboats to meet the ship and board her, ..."
2. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1880)
"... The milk of unicorns," &c. as old Volpone courted Coelia in the 4 comedy, when
as they are no such men, not worth a groat, but mere sharkers, ..."
3. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"They are most part bashful, suspicious, solitary, &c., therefore no such ambitious,
impudent intruders as some are, no sharkers, no cony-catchers, ..."
4. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... when as they are no such men, not worth a groat, but mere sharkers, to make
a fortune, to get their desire, or else pretend love to spend their idle ..."
5. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"... when as they are no such men, not worth a groat, but mere sharkers, to make
a fortune, to get their desire, or else pretend love to spend their idle ..."
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