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▪ I. naker, n.1 Now only Hist.|ˈneɪkə(r)|
Also 4–5 nakere, gen. pl. nak(e)ryn, 5 nakyr, 9 nakir. Cf. nacorne and naquaire.
[a. OF. nacre, naquere, nakaire, nacaire, etc. = It. nacchera, med.L. nach-, nacara, nacaria, med.Gr. ἀνάκαρα, ad. Arab. naqārah, Pers. naqāra. In English the word seems to have had real currency only in the 14th cent.]
A kettle-drum.
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 1413 Ay þe nakeryn noyse, notes of pipes, Tymbres & tabornes tulket among. a1352Minot Poems iv. 80 Þe princes..Gert nakers strike and trumpes blaw. c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1653 Pypes, trompes, nakers, and clariounes. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxxi. 138 Þer es herd noyse as it ware of trumppes and tawburnez and nakers. a1440Sir Degrev. 1085 With trompe and with nakere And the scalmuse clere.
1819Scott Ivanhoe xxx, A flourish of the Norman trumpets..mingled with the deep and hollow clang of the nakers. 1891Cornh. Mag. May 450 Every road..resounded with nakir and trumpet.
Hence † ˈnaker v. intr., to beat upon nakers.
c1400Laud Troy Bk. 4699 Thei nakered, piped and blew, Vnto that the Cokkes crew.
▪ II. † naker, n.2 Obs. rare—0.
[f. nake v. + -er1.]
One who makes naked.
c1440Promp. Parv. 351/1 Nakare, or he þat spoylythe men of clothys, denudator.
▪ III. naker
obs. form of nacre. |