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Knacker   Listen
noun
Knacker  n.  
1.
A harness maker. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.)
2.
One who slaughters worn-out horses and sells their flesh for dog's meat. (Eng.)





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"Knacker" Quotes from Famous Books



... vast demand, for it was considered a pound of grub was the equal of a pound of gold. Old horses, fit but for the knacker's yard, and burdened till they could barely stand, were being goaded forward through the mud. Any kind of a dog was a prize, quickly stolen if left unwatched. Sheep being taken in for the butcher were driven forward with packs on their backs. Even was there an effort to make pack animals ...
— The Trail of '98 - A Northland Romance • Robert W. Service
... knacker's hacks, (However odd it sounds), Let out that day to hunt, instead Of going to ...
— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood
... driving their owners back, broken and useless, by way of Switzerland. To him human beings are merchandise to be sold upon the hoof like cattle. No spiritual values enter into the bargain. When the body is exhausted it is sent to the knacker's, as though it belonged to a worn-out horse. The entire attitude is materialistic and degrading. Evian-les-Bains, the once gay gambling resort of the cosmopolitan, has become the knacker's shop for French ...
— Out To Win - The Story of America in France • Coningsby Dawson
... located in the body of a miserable cab-horse; one of the sorriest hacks in the East End of London, and practically fit only for the knacker, one would have said. ...
— Drolls From Shadowland • J. H. Pearce


Words linked to "Knacker" :   slaughterer, butcher


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