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Meanings of knacker in английском

Person who removes animal carcasses and roadkill.

Usage of knacker in английском
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He says that she has been sent to the knacker to rest.
The new yorker
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Horses are sent to the knacker's yard, boats to the breaker's yard.'
Depths
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I can't 'talk nice' to the knacker if I'm tucked under your arm.
The brazen gambit
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He would have to wait for the knacker to come for his horse.
Anno Dracula
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Note also the blood-red eyes, with the hard look of the knacker in them.
The Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters o...
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First of all he went to the knacker, Sanin, who lived in a village near.
The Forged Coupon, and Other Stories
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Only templars can leave corpses at the boneyard without paying the knacker at the gate.
The brazen gambit
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As long as Bob stayed ahead in age, I wasn't yet due for the knacker's yard.
Priest
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I mean do I look like a knacker?
The Irish Times
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Our glen they made into a knacker's midden.
The system of the world
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For two shillings I'd sell them to a traveling knacker just to get rid of them.
Equoid
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I remember being called "knacker" very early in my school days and a "smelly knacker".
The Irish Times
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They are taking Boxer to the knacker's!
Animal Farm
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You're only fit for the knacker's yard.
At the Back of the North Wind
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Templar talk nice to the knacker.
The brazen gambit
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If Janki had said 'a knacker' or 'a gravedigger', the disappointment around the table could not have been greater.
Melnitz
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