† under-skinkern.
Obsolete.
(under- prefix1 3a(a): see skinker n. 1.)
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the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > [noun] > serving liquor > tapster or barmaid > inferior
under-skinker1598
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 23 This peniworth of sugar, clapt euen now into my hand by an vnderskinker . View more context for this quotation
1631 T. Heywood Fair Maid of West: 2nd Pt. iv. sig. H3v Ile see and I can be entertained to my old trade of drawing wine: if't be but an under skinker, I care not.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 706 Under-skinker, assistant to the purser's steward.]
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n.1598- rhythm musician
- rhythm pattern
- rhythm prose
- rhythm royal
- rhythm section
- rhythm singing
- rhythm stick
- rhythm system
- rhythm-accent
- rhythm-deaf
- rhythm-drunk
- rhythm-foot
- rhythm-word
- rhythmaccent
- rhythmal
- rhythmdeaf
- rhythmdrunk
- rhythmed
- rhythmer
- rhythmetic
- rhythmetical
- rhythmfoot
- rhythmi
- rhythmic
- rhythmic breathing