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Definition of Clunkers
1. clunker [n] - See also: clunker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clunkers
Literary usage of Clunkers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"Covered with clunkers; applied to a road, or floor, that is overlaid with clots
of indurated dirt, SB Wha kens but what the ..."
2. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"Covered with clunkers ; applied to a road, or floor, ... clunkers, i. pi.
Dirt hardened in clots, so as to render a road, pavement, or floor unequal, ..."
3. Daniel Defoe: His Life and Recently Discovered Writings: Extending from 1716 by Lee, William, Daniel Defoe (1869)
"I. Relating to Fathers called clunkers to Thos. Bradbury, a Dealer in many Words.
London. Printed and Sold by S. Keimer, Paternoster Row. ..."
4. An Inquiry Into the Scriptural Views of Slavery by Albert Barnes (1855)
"The history of emancipation among the clunkers is an exceedingly interesting and
instructive portion of the history of our country; and in the calm, ..."
5. "Liberty." by Julius Rubens Ames (1839)
"... had continued to be true clunkers; for they would have set an example, which
would have proved to the rest of the islanders and the world at large, ..."
6. The History of the United States of America by Richard Hildreth (1877)
"... and Progress of the Christian People called clunkers to 1717, folio. From the
Dutch. Cotton Mather, Life of Sir Wm. Phipps. Letters of the Mathers to ..."
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