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What is an anker?

What is an anker? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (obsolete) a measure of wine or spirit equal to 10 gallons; a barrel of this capacity
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Then anker repeated his visit, and had something else to show.
By coincidence, an anker is also a European liquid measure roughly equivalent to eight and a half gallons.
And standing along to the Westward, this night we tryed with our mayne coarse and bonnet. On Saturday night we came to an anker, in three fathomes against Sewramo.
Anker said at the annual scientific sessions of the American Heart Association.
The pitiful thing about anker was that he was such a good craftsman.
Well, he met young Mr. anker, as I was saying, and asked him what ailed him.

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