icker

[ik-er]

noun Scot.

the fruit-bearing spike of any cereal plant, especially an ear of corn.

Origin of icker

1505–15; Scots form of ear², continuing Old English æhher, eher (Northumbrian dial.)

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Foss′icker, a mining gleaner who works over old diggings, and scratches about in the beds of creeks; Foss′icking.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M)
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Mim′icker; Mim′icry, act of mimicking: an imitative resemblance in one animal to another or to some inanimate object.
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