Meaning of Winker | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person or an animal that winks (“blinks with one eye; blinks with one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion, usually with an implication of conspiracy”).
2. Clipping of tiddlywinker (“a player of the game of tiddlywinks”).
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
3. A surname from German.
4. A person who connives with another; a conniver.
5. A thing which is used to wink with, or which winks.
   informal
6. Synonym of turn signal (“each of the flashing lights on each side of a vehicle which is used to indicate that the vehicle is moving left or right”); a blinker, an indicator.
   informal
7. Synonym of blinker (“a shield attached to the bridle of a horse or other domesticated animal to prevent it from seeing things behind it and to its side”).
   also, attributive, figuratively, in-plural
8. A small bellows in an organ, regulated by a spring, which controls variations of wind pressure.
9. The nictitating membrane (“transparent protective fold of skin acting as an inner eyelid”) of a birds's eye.
10. An eye.
    British, dialectal, slang
11. An eyelash.
    British, US, dialectal, slang

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Examples

“He [Joshua] vvas the pattern of a true Judge⟳, he vvas no gift-taker, he vvas no vvinker, he vvas no by-vvalker.”

“And so may we iudge of these wilye winkers in Religion, that either they be blindstockes in deede and lacke the light⟳ of that Heauenlye wysedome, which they pretende to haue, or els their wicked wysedome is but a cloake of wickednes […]”

“[O]ftymes, men are, of neceſſitie, forced to ſpeak the more amply even of plaine matters: as offering them not ſo much to the vievv of men vvho ſee, but even, in a ſort, to bee handled by groapers and vvinkers.”

“VVe have⟳, it ſeems, a great Turk in poetry, vvho can never bear⟳ a brother on the throne; and has his mutes too, a ſett of nodders, vvinkers, and vvhiſperers, vvhoſe buſineſs is to ſtrangle all other offsprings of vvit in their birth.”

“The witch saw⟳ at once that there was some secret understanding between him and her that she did not understand⟳. Her magic escapades often left her in this position. However, she winked back hopefully. But she was not a skilled winker. Everybody—even the Dog David—saw⟳ her doing it, […]”

“[T]his Censurer slaundereth manie men, another might say⟳ of him, he is the cōmon packhorse of the Papistes, to carrie any fardell of lyes deuised against any Christian man or booke that commeth in his way, and the rather because he weareth a paire of winkers ouer his eyes like⟳ a milhorse, being ashamed to shewe either his face⟳ or his name⟳.”

“Take⟳ the winkers off that donkey's face⟳, and let⟳ him get⟳ a bit to eat⟳; there's grass enough, God knows, and it's good grass.”

“The collar of his cambric shirt, English fashion, is highly starched and looks like⟳ winkers, its points projecting upward in front with a wide gap between.”

“Where the wind-trunk is short between the reservoir and wind-chests the tone will be steady; but when it is long, and with bends, the elasticity of the air causes an unsteadiness in the tone, which must be obviated by the use⟳ of concussion-bellows, sometimes called "winkers," or by an elastic diaphragm.”

“There is a third inner eyelid, highly developed and of beautiful mechanism: this is the nictitating membrane, or "winker" (nictito, I wink), a delicate, elastic, translucent, pearly-white fold⟳ of the conjunctiva. While the other lids move⟳ vertically and have⟳ a horizontal commissure, the winker sweeps horizontally or obliquely across the ball, from the side next the beak to the opposite.”

“[H]e has shell'd out the lour for the occasion, and is travelling down to keep⟳ a wakeful winker on his retailers, and to take⟳ care that however they may chuse to lush away the profit, they shall at least take⟳ care of the principal. [Footnote ǁ: “Wakeful winker—A sharp eye.”]”

“With keener stare⟳ / The man's eyes scanned him, with the flare / Of yellow light⟳ full on his face⟳, / As though his memory sought to trace / Something familiar in the lean⟳ / Clearcut young features and the clean⟳ / Blue winkers: then his own⟳ hard eyes / Twinkled, […]”

“We're like⟳ father and Aunt Nina, hanging on the wall in the library. Mother's got big black eyes, with winkers a rod long, and her hair shines like⟳ my velvet coat, and comes most to her feet.”

“I had fallen down on my knees, with my back to the wind, and already the snow⟳ had drifted around me. I also found my eye-lashes frozen together, and I lost several winkers in getting rid⟳ of those solidified tears.”

“His eyebrows are gone and his winkers, and he’s as red as a gobbler’s neck.”

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