Sinker

Noun

 * 1)  A weight used in fishing to cause the line or net to sink
 * Hook the sinker onto this loop.
 * 1)  Any of several high speed pitches that have a downward motion near the plate; a two-seam fastball, a split-finger fastball, or a forkball
 * His sinkers drew one ground ball after another.
 * 1)  Sinker nail, used for framing in current construction.
 * 2)  A doughnut; a biscuit.
 * 3) * 1926, Edna Ferber, Show Boat: A Novel, page 268
 * Of the fifty cents, ten went for the glassy shoeshine; twenty-five for a boutonniere; ten for coffee and sinkers at the Cockeyed Bakery.
 * 1) * 2001, Gerald J. Prokopowicz, All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862, page 148
 * they improvised by opening a barrel of flour and letting each man dump in a quart of water (if he had one) and scoop out a handful of dough to bake into rock-hard sinkers.
 * 1) * 2003, William W. Johnstone, Ambush Of The Mountain Man, page 168
 * "Gonna have to dip them sinkers in coffee to get 'em soft enough to chew," Jason Biggs said, grinning.

Thesaurus
Brussels biscuit, Melba toast, apple fritter, beignet, beignet aux pommes, biscuit, bismarck, bob, bowl, cast, change of pace, change-up, chuck, chunk, cracker, cruller, curve, doughnut, downcurve, fastball, fastnacht, fling, flip, forward pass, friedcake, fritter, graham cracker, hardtack, heave, hurl, incurve, knuckleball, lateral, lateral pass, lead, lob, olykoek, outcurve, pass, peg, pilot biscuit, pitch, plumb, plummet, pretzel, put, raised doughnut, rusk, saltine, sandbag, screwball, sea biscuit, serve, service, ship biscuit, shot-put, shy, slider, sling, soda cracker, spitball, spitter, throw, toss, twister, upcurve, wafer, weight, zwieback

Translations
1. A weight used for fishing :


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Anagrams

 * inkers, reskin