Usually means: Weighted lure for fishing depths.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word sinker:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. sinker: Merriam-Webster
  2. sinker: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sinker: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sinker: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sinker: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sinker, sinker, sinker: Wordnik
  7. sinker: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sinker: Wiktionary
  9. sinker: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sinker: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sinker: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sinker: Dictionary.com
  13. sinker: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Sinker (baseball), Sinker (fishing), Sinker (mining), Sinker: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Sinker: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. sinker: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. sinker: Rhymezone
  18. Sinker: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. sinker: FreeDictionary.org
  20. sinker: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. sinker: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Sinker: bizterms.net
  4. Sinker: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  5. Sinker: Investopedia
  6. sinker: Financial dictionary
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sinker: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sinker: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sinker, sinker: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. sinker: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sinker: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SINKER: Mining Terms used in mid 1800's
  2. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  That which sinks or descends.
noun:  One who sinks something.
noun:  (fishing) A weight used in fishing to cause the line or net to sink.
noun:  (baseball) Any of several high speed pitches that have a downward motion near the plate; a two-seam fastball, a split-finger fastball, or a forkball.
noun:  (construction) A sinker nail, used for framing in current construction.
noun:  (slang) A doughnut; a biscuit.
noun:  In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles.

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