Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete spelling of
ocher .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete See
ocher .
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- noun Obsolete form of
ochre .
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Examples
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Stuff that Spanish brown is made on is called oaker.
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The notes by which I recorded it were written in the cabin of the once lost "live oaker" about four years after the painful incident occurred.
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He was, in fact, what is colloquially known as "an old poison oaker."
Hunting with the Bow and Arrow Saxton Pope 1900
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She recved no proceiviable damage, we came to for Dinner at a Beever house, Cap Lewis's Dog Seamon went in & drove them out. the high Lands on the L.S. is open, a few trees Scattering (2) passed a Small Creek on the L.S. in the 1s bend to the left I call yellow oaker creek from a bank of that Mineral just above. we camped on the L.S. under a high bank Latd.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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A print that is not of any value, may be nibbed on the wrong fide with red chalk, red oaker, Spanifli bro¥m, Indian red, or 2saf. other fine foft colour that will rub dry into the grain of the paper.
Essays Upon Natural History, and Other Miscellaneous Subjects, 1770
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Nor let any be deterr’d, if being to remove any trees, he shall esteem it too consumptive of time; for with a brush dipped in any white colour, or oaker, a thousand may be marked as they stand, in a moment; and that once done, the difficulty is over.
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
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