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Skinker   Listen
noun
Skinker  n.  One who serves liquor; a tapster.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Skinker" Quotes from Famous Books



... forward, and while the First Army Corps occupied a strong position in rear of Fredericksburg, with an advanced detachment in the town, the Second was told off to protect the lower reaches of the Rappahannock. Ewell's division, still commanded by Early, was posted at Skinker's Neck, twelve miles south-east of Fredericksburg, a spot which afforded many facilities for crossing; D.H. Hill's at Port Royal, already menaced by Federal gunboats, six miles further down stream; A.P. Hill's and Taliaferro's (Jackson's own) at Yerby's House and Guiney's ...
— Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War • G. F. R. Henderson



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