penker

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Noun

penker (plural penkers)

  1. (Northern England, dialectal) A large marble, usually made of stone or metal, used in the game of marbles.
    • (Can we date this quote?), “(Geordie folk song)”:
      Wor Geordie's lost his penker
    • 1896, Frank M. T. Palgrave, A List of Words and Phrases in Every-day Use by the Natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, English Dialect Society, page 34:
      The 'panker' or 'panker' is a large marble, made of stone or iron. Each boy puts four marbles in a ring, and proceeds to knock them out of the ring with a panker.
    • 1987, Sid Chaplin, “The Night of the News”, in Michael Chaplin, Rene Chaplin, editors, In Blackberry Time, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Bloodaxe Books, →ISBN, page 72:
      Here he [Sid Chaplin] learnt to swim and how to jarp Easter eggs; he played with penkers, and shutty ring with glass alleys, and sometimes the men joined in games of tipcat.
    • 2004, Bill Griffiths, A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN, page 326:
      "the first boy threw a penker - much larger than the other marbles (boodies) - the next boy tried to hit it"
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