knacker
a person who buys animal carcasses or slaughters useless livestock for a knackery or rendering works.
a person who buys and dismembers old houses, ships, etc., to salvage usable parts, selling the rest as scrap.
Dialect. an old, sick, or useless farm animal, especially a horse.
Obsolete. a harness maker; a saddler.
Origin of knacker
1Words Nearby knacker
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
How to use knacker in a sentence
I felt forced to follow, and soon found myself outside a knacker's yard.
"Now so surely as I am Kurt, the knacker, there is more in this priestling than meets the eye," he muttered.
The Doomsman | Van Tassel SutphenOne of the guardsmen held out a full ox-horn of wine, and the knacker seized it and forced it into Constans's hand.
The Doomsman | Van Tassel SutphenA harsh croak greeted him, and he recognized the crippled sailor who called himself Kurt the knacker.
The Doomsman | Van Tassel SutphenOld horses, fit but for the knacker's yard, and burdened till they could barely stand, were being goaded forward through the mud.
The Trail of '98 | Robert W. Service
British Dictionary definitions for knacker
/ (ˈnækə) British /
a person who buys up old horses for slaughter
a person who buys up old buildings and breaks them up for scrap
(usually plural) slang another word for testicle
Irish slang a despicable person
(tr; usually passive) slang to exhaust; tire
Origin of knacker
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Browse