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dunker
(encz) | dunker, n: |
dunker
(gcide) | 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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Dunker
(gcide) | 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.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
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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dunker
(wn) | 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] |
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dunker
(encz) | dunker, n: |
dunkerque
(encz) | Dunkerque,Dunkerk n: [jmén.] [zem.] město ve Francii Stanislav Horáček |
dunkerk
(czen) | Dunkerk,Dunkerquen: [jmén.] [zem.] město ve Francii Stanislav Horáček |
dunker
(gcide) | 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.
[1913 Webster]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.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
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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Dunkerque
(gcide) | Dunkerque \Dunkerque\ prop. n.
the name of a town and a battle fought there, in World War II
(1940) when 330,000 Allied troops had to be evacuated from
the beaches at Dunkirk in a desperate retreat under enemy
fire. Most of the forces were safely evacuated to England.
Syn: Dunkirk.
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Seventh-day Dunkers
(gcide) | 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.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
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.
[1913 Webster] |
dunker
(wn) | 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] |
dunkerque
(wn) | Dunkerque
n 1: a seaport in northern France on the North Sea; scene of the
evacuation of British forces in 1940 during World War II
[syn: Dunkirk, Dunkerque]
2: an amphibious evacuation in World War II (1940) when 330,000
Allied troops had to be evacuated from the beaches in
northern France in a desperate retreat under enemy fire [syn:
Dunkirk, Dunkerque] |
dunkers
(wn) | Dunkers
n 1: a Baptist denomination founded in 1708 by Americans of
German descent; opposed to military service and taking
legal oaths; practiced trine immersion [syn: {Church of the
Brethren}, Dunkers, Dippers] |
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