Taker
['teɪkə] or ['tekɚ]
Definition
(noun.) one who takes a bet or wager.
(noun.) one who accepts an offer.
Editor: Orville--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who takes or receives; one who catches or apprehends.
Typed by Jennifer
Examples
- Unfortunately Mercury is no snuff-taker. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He says his name's Tom White, your worship,' said the kind-hearted thief-taker. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- You and I are forever at the mercy of the census-taker and the census-maker. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Tobin, the care-taker, was murdered, and the thieves got away with seven thousand pounds. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The reign of Robespierre lived, it seemed, on blood, and needed more and more, as an opium-taker needs more and more opium. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Thieves and thief-takers hung in dread rapture on his words, and shrank when a hair of his eyebrows turned in their direction. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Nineteen fair to middling Wallachian girls offered at L130 . 150, but no takers; sixteen prime A 1 sold in small lots to close out--terms private. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In vain I searched among the groups of travellers and leave-takers for the lithe figure of my friend. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Care-takers in calico lounged on the door-steps of the wealthy, and the Common looked like a pleasure-ground on the morrow of a Masonic picnic. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- At this rate I find some takers; perhaps the reader will receive it on the same terms--ninety feet instead of one hundred and eighty. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Typist: Veronica