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soaker|ˈsəʊkə(r)|
Also 6–8 soker (6 sooker ?).
[f. soak v. + -er1.]
†1. A drainer, exhauster. Obs.
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. (1586) 40 It is a great soker of the grounde. 1610W. Folkingham Art Surv. i. x. 31 Wheate, Barley, Woade,..are great impairers and soakers of the soyle. 1629Massinger Picture iii. iv, I found By sad experience there is no such soaker As a young spongy wife. 1641Day Parliament of Bees x, He's a male polecat; a mere heart-blood soaker.
2. An immoderate drinker; a drunkard. Cf. 3 b.
1593Bacchus Bountie in Harl. Misc. (1809) II. 265 The greatest soakers shal be least controulde. 1652Charac. Low Countries 60 The Dutchman would still be the perfectest soker. 1679Wood Life (O.H.S.) II. 460 The black pot men carried it for Perot, a thorough paced soaker. 1770Ann. Reg. ii. 240 'Tis Soakers like me..That enable you Brewers to ride in your Coaches. 1837Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. i. Look at the Clock iv, Amusing himself..With a couple more soakers, Thoroughbred smokers. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 865 In the case of a soaker on the verge of delirium tremens.
fig.1593Nashe Four Lett. Conf. Wks. (Grosart) II. 242 A scholler in nothing but the scum of schollership, a stale soker at Tullies Offices. 1665R. Brathwait Comment. Two Tales (1901) 52, I know you for a notable Soaker; you cannot endure a Sharer. 1700Congreve Way of World iv. ii, The sun's..an honest soaker; he has a cellar at your Antipodes.
3. old soaker:
a. An old hand at anything; an old stager.
Perh. originally with allusion to drinking (cf. b and 2), but this does not appear in the quotations.
1589R. Harvey Plain Perc. (1590) 9 An olde sooker, that caries such Pottical verses of the State of Flanders, in a linnen bag. 1593G. Harvey Pierce's Super. Wks. (Grosart) II. 295 He was an old soaker indeede: and had more witt in his hoary head, then six hundred of these floorishing greene heads. 1614Meriton Christian Mans Assuring-house 35 A young sinner is easily converted; but olde soakers are hardly reclaimed. c1670Newcome Diary (1885) 142 These old soakers with their Record's Arithmetic.
b. An old hand at drinking; a regular toper.
1665Pepys Diary 15 Feb., A very good dinner among the old sokers. 1670Eachard Cont. Clergy 31 A task..that would much better fit some old soker at Parnassus, than his sipping unexperienc'd bibbership! a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, An old Soker, a true Pitcher-man. 1829Scott Anne of G. xix, Some quiet old soakers, who were already beginning to think of the reckoning. 1863Mortons of Bardom I. 177 Thus assailed, the old soaker was compelled to withdraw.
4. a. One who soaks something.
1611Cotgr., Trempeur, a dipper; wetter, moistener; soaker, steeper.
b. A drenching rain.
1789J. Byng Jrnl. 29 May in Torrington Diaries (1938) IV. 95 An approaching Storm made me pull up near the Grey Hound Inn; and well I did, for it came down a Soaker. 1839Hood To St. Swithin v, Mother of all the Family of Rainers! Saint of the Soakers! 1857A. Mayhew Paved with Gold ii. v, The rain came down in streams of water... ‘Here's a soaker!’ thought the young Bohemian.
c. A soaking pit.
1928Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. CXVII. 201 The heated soakers are fired by blast-furnace gas. 1959Ibid. CXCIII. 368/2 The soaking pit used was an electric soaker with a single trough coke resistor. 1976Steel USSR VI. 194/2 The holding period from the end of casting to charging into the soakers was maintained constant as far as possible.
5. A sheet of lead used in roofing to keep out heavy rains.
1895Jrnl. R. Inst. Brit. Archit. Mar. 351 Hips should have hip-tiles and not soakers. |