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- noun Alternative form of
Dunker .
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Examples
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The Tunker was a middle-aged man of probably forty-five or more years.
In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk Hezekiah Butterworth 1872
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Franklin & Elgen gone to the Tunker meeting rode my mare C.K. & Helena gone to Sharpsg. rode the old poneys I have unpleasant feelings all day.
Ferry Hill Plantation journal : January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839, 1961
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Ned & Murf in the Boat done a prety good Business. on acct. of Tunker meeting
Ferry Hill Plantation journal : January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839, 1961
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Blackford used Tunker and Dunkard interchangeably.
Ferry Hill Plantation journal : January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839, 1961
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Tunker or Dunkard church, stacked arms, and were told that we could rest.
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Tunker or Dunkard church everything looked so nice and clean that one would not know that it was the scene two years before of the most severe fighting of the war!
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In the woods at the famous Dunkard or Tunker Church, where, from personal observation at the battle,
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When we are truly sanctified the non-baptizing Quaker, and the trine immersionist, and the High Church Episcopalian, and the foot - washing Tunker, and the Methodist, and the Baptist, and the
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His Tunker neighbor up the mountain performs the same feat on his own upper lip.
The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 Various 1888
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The Mountaineer is frequently a Tunker, the Ridger rarely.
The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 Various 1888
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