penker
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A large marble, usually made of stone or metal, used in the game of marbles.
Example Sentences
- "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""