c1385 G. Chaucer 2511 Pipes, trompes, nakers [v.r. nakerns], clariounes.
c1400 (?c1380) (1920) 1413 (MED) Ay þe nakeryn noyse, notes of pipes, Tymbres and tabornes, tulket among.
a1425 (c1333–52) L. Minot (1914) 13 (MED) Þe princes..Gert nakers strike and trumpes blaw.
?a1425 (c1400) (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 187 Grete noyse, as it were sown of tabours and of nakeres [?a1425 Egerton nakers; Fr. nakairez].
(Harl. 221) 350 Nacorne, ynstrument of mynstralsye, nabulum.
a1500 (Cambr.) (1949) 1101 With trompe and with nakere And þe scalmuse clere.
1819 W. Scott II. xv. 292 A flourish of the Norman trumpets..mingled with the deep and hollow clang of the nakers.
1832 W. Motherwell 52 The madness of the doubling drum, The naker's sullen roar.
1891 May 450 Every road..resounded with nakir and trumpet.
1941 16 81 In his descriptions of tournaments and battles, Chaucer mentions the use of pipes, trumpets, clarions, and nakers, either to spur on the soldiers or to frighten the enemy.
1975 19 May 90/2 Kettledrums, nakers, Islam's naqquāra were introduced to Europe by the Crusaders.
1991 72 61 To the sound of a pair of long trumpets..and nakers, she first proceeds on her father's right arm.
