Nacker
n.- The summit of an eminence.
- (Firearms) The cock of a gunlock.
- (Locksmithing) The keeper, or box into which the lock is shot.
- To catch or seize suddenly or unexpectedly.
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To capture; to arrest;
as, the police nabbed the culprit wtrying to hide in the basement . - A deputy or viceroy in India; a governor of a province of the ancient Mogul empire.
- One who returns to Europe from the East with immense riches: hence, any man of great wealth.
- A pale red color, with a cast of orange.
- Fine linen or crape dyed of this color.
- A small boat.
- The basket suspended from a balloon; hence, the framework forming the body of a dirigible balloon, and containing the machinery, passengers, etc.
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A streamlined enclosure on an airplane, as for the engine or for the cargo or passengers; -- formerly used to refer to the boatlike, inclosed body of an airplane which is usually now called the
fuselage , and now referring mostly to the enclosure for the engine.
The letter N came into English through the Latin and Greek from the Phœnician, which probably derived it from the Egyptian as the ultimate origin. It is etymologically most closely related to M. See