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icker

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[ik-er] / ˈɪk ər /

noun

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


Etymology

Origin of icker

1505–15; Scots form of ear 2, continuing Old English æhher, eher (Northumbrian dial.)

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A daimen icker in a thrave ‘S a sma’ request: I’ll get a blessin’ wi’ the lave, And never miss’t!

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns

A daimen icker in a thrave 'S a sma' request: I'll get a blessin wi' the lave, An' never miss't!

From The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language by Francis Turner Palgrave

A daimen icker in a thrave 'S a sma' request; I'll get a blessin' wi' the laive, And never miss't!

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

A daimen icker in a thrave 'S a sma' o' request I'll get a blessin' wi' the lave, And never miss 't!

From One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed by C. A. Bogardus

A daimen icker in a thrave 'S a sma' request: I'll get a blessin' wi' the lave, And never miss 't!

From Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library by Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth) Burt

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