Lexicographical Neighbors of Dackers
Literary usage of Dackers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1879)
"Backer, v. to deteriorate ; to flag; to grow worse : ' the fire dackers. See Megger.
Dak ! Dak! call to a pig (coaxingly). ..."
2. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-, Martha Joanna Lamb, John Austin Stevens, Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Nathan Gilbert Pond, William Abbatt (1887)
"Some Distances taken from the South Carolina and Georgia Almanack. From Savannah
To dackers Miles 15 By Water. From Savannah. ..."
3. The Life of Charles Loring Brace: Chiefly Told in His Own Letters by Charles Loring Brace, Emma Brace (1894)
"I am now a father in Israel to the Adiron- dackers. It is lovely, solitary, dreamy
as ever. A lifetime has hardly touched this lake. ..."
4. The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and by Andrew Kippis, William Godwin, George Robinson (1822)
"The Ra- dackers were scarcely near enough to speak to him, when to their great
astonishment, he sprung up, exclaiming, ' Look here ! ..."
5. Catalogue of the Stowe Manuscripts in the British Museum by Bertram Ashburnham Ashburnham, Charles O'Conor (1896)
"212 b, 213;—from W. Stanhope, 1725. 256, ff. 18, 23, 31, 33, 38, 44, 50, 52, 54,
65, 67. Jacobite ref. to, under pseudonym of dackers, 1722. 250, f. 31. ..."
6. Descriptive Guide to the Adirondacks: And Handbook of Travel to Saratoga by Edwin R. Wallace (1878)
"As Bartlett is one of the pioneers of the Wilderness, many old " Adiron- dackers "
have long made this place their headquarters. ..."
7. The Adirondacks by Thomas Morris Longstreth (1917)
"The veteran stage driver, who says that he hasn't missed a trip for thirty years
or killed a horse, is another of those sturdy Adiron- dackers of the old ..."
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