Meaning of penker | Babel Free

Definitions

A large marble, usually made of stone or metal, used in the game of marbles.

Northern-England, dialectal

Examples

“Wor Geordie's lost his penker”

“The 'panker' or 'panker' is a large marble, made of stone or iron. Each boy puts four marbles in a ring, and proceeds to knock them out of the ring with a panker.”

“Here he [Sid Chaplin] learnt to swim and how to jarp Easter eggs; he played with penkers, and shutty ring with glass alleys, and sometimes the men joined in games of tipcat.”

“"the first boy threw a penker - much larger than the other marbles (boodies) - the next boy tried to hit it"”

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