Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as dicker.
  • See dacker.
  • To arrange in an orderly manner: with out.

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Examples

  • Hark thee, man --- I owe thee a day in harst --- I'll pay up your thousan pund Scots, plack and bawbee, gin ye'll be an honest fallow for anes, and just daiker up the gate wi 'this

    Rob Roy 1887

  • And, to speak truth, I hae been flitting every term these four-and-twenty years; but when the time comes, there's aye something to saw that I would like to see sawn, -- or something to maw that I would like to see mawn, -- or something to ripe that I would like to see ripen, -- and sae I e'en daiker on wi 'the family frae year's end to year's end.

    Rob Roy — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801

  • And, to speak truth, I hae been flitting every term these four-and-twenty years; but when the time comes, there's aye something to saw that I would like to see sawn, -- or something to maw that I would like to see mawn, -- or something to ripe that I would like to see ripen, -- and sae I e'en daiker on wi 'the family frae year's end to year's end.

    Rob Roy — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • There are but few towards the fouth, but they increafe and grow daiker as we advance towards the north.

    A philosophical and political history of the British settlements and trade in North America ... 1779

  • Hark thee, man — I owe thee a day in harst — I’ll pay up your thousan pund Scots, plack and bawbee, gin ye’ll be an honest fallow for anes, and just daiker up the gate wi’ this

    Rob Roy 2005

  • And, to speak truth, I hae been flitting every term these four-and-twenty years; but when the time comes, there’s aye something to saw that I would like to see sawn, — or something to maw that I would like to see mawn, — or something to ripe that I would like to see ripen, — and sae I e’en daiker on wi’ the family frae year’s end to year’s end.

    Rob Roy 2005

  • Hark thee, man, I owe thee a day in harst -- I'll pay up your thousan pund Scots, plack and bawbee, gin ye'll be an honest fellow for anes, and just daiker up the gate wi 'this Sassenach. "

    The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III Various 1885

  • Scots, plack and bawbee, gin ye'll be an honest fallow for anes, and just daiker up the gate wi 'this Sassenach. "

    Rob Roy — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • Scots, plack and bawbee, gin ye'll be an honest fallow for anes, and just daiker up the gate wi 'this Sassenach. "

    Rob Roy — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

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