Canadian English Meaning of quaker

Quaker

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Definitions and Meaning of quaker in English

Wordnet

quaker (n)

a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)

one who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear

Webster

quaker (n.)

One who quakes.

One of a religious sect founded by George Fox, of Leicestershire, England, about 1650, -- the members of which call themselves Friends. They were called Quakers, originally, in derision. See Friend, n., 4.

The nankeen bird.

The sooty albatross.

Any grasshopper or locust of the genus (Edipoda; -- so called from the quaking noise made during flight.

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Quaker

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