different between naker vs nacker

English

From Old French nacaire, nacre (cognate with Italian nacchera, mediaeval Latin nacara), from Arabic ?????????? (naqq?ra, “drum”).

naker (plural nakers)

(music) A small drum, of Arabic origin, and the forebear of the European kettledrum.
- 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
  the Norman trumpets from the battlements […] , mingled with the deep and hollow clang of the nakers, (a species of kettle-drum,) retorted in notes of defiance the challenge of the enemy.

nacker

Obsolete form of nacre.
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