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skulker|ˈskʌlkə(r)|
Also 4, 6 sculker(e, 4 scolker, 5 sculcare, Sc. scoukar.
[f. prec. + -er1. Cf. MSw. skulkare, Norw. skulkar.]
1. One who skulks, in various senses. † Also as a name for the hare.
13..Names of Hare in MS. Digby 168 b, Þe wint-swifft, þe sculkere, Þe hare-serd, þe heg roukere. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 491 He haþ wiþ hym flemed men and scolkers aboute. a1400Morte Arth. 3119 Than skyftes þes skouerours,..Diskoueres for skulkers that they no skathe lymppene. c1470Henry Wallace ix. 180 Skour weyll about for scoukaris in the se. c1530Pore Helpe 384 in Hazl. E.P.P. III. 266 A man that wyl not vary, And one that is no sculker. 1728Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 401 The numbers that are for laying him aside.., too often hedgers and skulkers. 1800Coleridge Wallenstein i. vii, Did we confine thee not to let that skulker..pass the gates of Pilsen! 1841C. Mackay Pop. Delusions II. 30 He..was now a solitary skulker in the forests. 1870Dickens E. Drood xv, It's good advice, whichever of you skulkers gave it.
b. spec. (See quot. 1785.)
1785Grose Dict. Vulgar T., Skulker, a soldier who by feigned sickness or other pretences evades his duty, a sailor who keeps below in time of danger [etc.]. 1826Hutchison Pract. Obs. Surg. 191 The plan I adopted, when serving afloat, to lessen the sick list of sculkers, as they are technically termed in the navy. 1887Spectator 9 July 932/1 Serjeant Lawrence..was particularly hard on skulkers.
2. A moth, Graphiphora latens.
1832Rennie Butterfl. & Moths 54 The Sculker..appears in summer. Rare. South of Scotland.
3. Ornith. (See quots.)
1867H. Spencer Princ. Biol. vi. viii. §349 ‘Skulkers’ is the descriptive title applied to the Water-Rail, the Corn-Crake, and their allies, which evade enemies by concealment. 1872Coues N. Amer. Birds 241 Their shy retiring habit of skulking among the rushes has caused them to be sometimes called Latitores (skulkers). |