different between shanker vs shaker

English

Etymology 1

shank +? -er

Noun

shanker (plural shankers)

1. One who shanks (in any of various senses).
   1. One who shanks a golf ball.
      • 1975, Blackie Sherrod, Scattershooting:

        Littler said he didn't shank it; rather he called it a soft pop-up, but us old hard-core shankers weren't so generous .

      • 1993, Harvey Penick, Bud Shrake, Edwin Shrake, And If You Play Golf, You're My Friend: Further Reflections of a Grown Caddie, Simon and Schuster (?ISBN), page 57:

        He said, "Our whole club is full of shankers." […] This club was infested with shankers, as if they all had a disease. […] The danger in hitting down on the ball with such intensity is that you are likely to shank it.

      • 2006, Butch Harmon, The Pro: Lessons from My Father About Golf and Life, Crown (?ISBN)

        And for the next twenty minutes, he shanked every shot. I did everything I could. […] And he still shanked every shot. […] “Sooooo, Butchie's got a shanker and can't get him squared up, huh?” he shouted so loud that ..."

   2. One who glues the shank into a shoe.
      • 1913, Leon Carroll Marshall, Chester Whitney Wright, James Alfred Field, Materials for the Study of Elementary Economics, page 202:

        A shank-cutter cuts with a die that part of the shank which is composed of leather or leather board. […] A shanker tacks the shank in place, cuts away the superfluous upper leather gathered under the toe, beats the edge of the upper out […]

      • 1986 March 6, "Factory Work" [Poetry, 147], quoted in 2009, Deborah Boe, The Girl of the Early Race: Poems, Gegensatz Press (?ISBN):

        I take those metal shanks, slide the backs of them in glue and make them lie down on the shoe-bottoms, […] Last week they ran a contest to see which shankers shanked fastest. I'm not embarrassed to say I beat them all.

Etymology 2

Noun

shanker (plural shankers)

1. Obsolete form of chancre.

References

• shanker in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• hankers, harkens

English

Etymology

shake +? -er

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??e?k?/
• Rhymes: -e?k?(r)

Noun

shaker (plural shakers)

1. A person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken.
2. A variety of pigeon.
3. One who holds railroad spikes while they are hammered.
4. A musical percussion instrument filled with granular solids which produce a rhythmic sound when shaken.
5. A kind of straight-sided, stackable glass for beer, soda, etc.

Derived terms

• cocktail shaker
• salt shaker

Translations

See also

• Shaker (instrument) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Eraskh, Rehaks, hearks, kasher, sharke

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English shaker.

Noun

shaker m (invariable)

1. cocktail shaker

Anagrams

• kasher