Winker

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A person or an animal that winks (“blinks with one eye; blinks with one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion, usually with an implication of conspiracy”).
2. isim A person who connives with another; a conniver.

   “He [Joshua] vvas the pattern of a true Judge, he vvas no gift-taker, he vvas no vvinker, he vvas no by-vvalker.”

3. isim Synonym of turn signal (“each of the flashing lights on each side of a vehicle which is used to indicate that the vehicle is moving left or right”); a blinker, an indicator.
4. isim Synonym of blinker (“a shield attached to the bridle of a horse or other domesticated animal to prevent it from seeing things behind it and to its side”).

   “Take the winkers off that donkey's face, and let him get a bit to eat; there's grass enough, God knows, and it's good grass.”

5. isim A small bellows in an organ, regulated by a spring, which controls variations of wind pressure.
6. isim The nictitating membrane (“transparent protective fold of skin acting as an inner eyelid”) of a birds's eye.
7. isim An eye.

   “[H]e has shell'd out the lour for the occasion, and is travelling down to keep a wakeful winker on his retailers, and to take care that however they may chuse to lush away the profit, they shall at least take care of the principal. [Footnote ǁ: “Wakeful winker—A sharp eye.”]”

8. isim An eyelash.

   “We're like father and Aunt Nina, hanging on the wall in the library. Mother's got big black eyes, with winkers a rod long, and her hair shines like my velvet coat, and comes most to her feet.”

9. isim Clipping of tiddlywinker (“a player of the game of tiddlywinks”).
10. özel isim A surname from German.