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[syn: Dunker, Dunkard, Tunker]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Dunbird \Dun"bird`\, n. [Named from its color.] (Zool.)
(a) The pochard; -- called also dunair, and dunker, or
dun-curre.
(b) An American duck; the ruddy duck.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Dunker \Dun"ker\, prop. n. [G. tunken to dip.]
One of a religious denomination whose tenets and practices
are mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the
Quakers; -- called also Tunkers, Dunkards, Dippers,
and, by themselves, Brethren, and German Baptists, and
they call their denomination the Church of the Brethren.
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Note: The denomination was founded in Germany in 1708, but
after a few years the members emigrated to the United
States; they were opposed to military service and
taking legal oaths, and practiced trine immersion.
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Seventh-day Dunkers, a sect which separated from the
Dunkers and formed a community, in 1728. They keep the
seventh day or Saturday as the Sabbath.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
dunker
n 1: an eater who dips food into a liquid before eating it; "he
was a dunker--he couldn't eat a doughnut without a cup of
coffee to dunk it in"
2: a basketball player who is able to make dunk shots
3: an adherent of Baptistic doctrines (who practice baptism by
immersion) [syn: Dunker, Dunkard, Tunker]