Definitions for knacker

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knacker knack·er

Spelling: [nak-er]

IPA: /ˈnæk ər/

Knacker is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 118 anagrams from letters in knacker (acekknr).

Definitions for knacker

noun

1. a person who buys animal carcasses or slaughters useless livestock for a knackery or rendering works.
2. a person who buys and dismembers old houses, ships, etc., to salvage usable parts, selling the rest as scrap.
3. Dialect. an old, sick, or useless farm animal, especially a horse.
4. Obsolete. a harness maker; a saddler.

Origin of knacker

1565-75; knack (Scandinavian; compare Icelandic hnakkr nape of the neck, saddle) + -er¹

Examples for knacker

"Now so surely as I am Kurt, the knacker, there is more in this priestling than meets the eye," he muttered.

The bell on the neck of the knacker's old steed tolls him to the grave.

Better die now, while I am with thee, than fall into the knacker's hands.

First of all he went to the knacker, Sanin, who lived in a village near.

Note also the blood-red eyes, with the hard look of the knacker in them.

"It is God's truth—and now that I've said it, I'll stick to it," said the knacker.

They were spent with age and starvation, and were only fit for the knacker's yard.

A harsh croak greeted him, and he recognized the crippled sailor who called himself Kurt the knacker.

She reaches the knacker's cellar, at the end of the corridor.

"Well—if I must, I must," said the knacker, with affected reluctance.