Word Meanings - SNEAKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who sneaks. Lamb. 2. A vessel of drink. A sneaker of five gallons. Spectator.

Related words: (words related to SNEAKER)

• DRINKABLE
  Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural. Steele.
• SPECTATORSHIP
  1. The office or quality of a spectator. Addison. 2. The act of beholding. Shak.
• DRINK
  p. pr. & vb. n. Drinking. Drunken is now rarely used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually intoxicated; the form drank, not drincan; akin to OS. drinkan, D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, 1. To swallow anything liquid, for quenching
• DRINKER
  One who drinks; as, the effects of tea on the drinker; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard. Drinker moth , a large British moth .
• VESSELFUL
  As much as a vessel will hold; enough to fill a vessel.
• DRINKABLENESS
  State of being drinkable.
• SPECTATOR
  One who on; one who sees or beholds; a beholder; one who is personally present at, and sees, any exhibition; as, the spectators at a show. "Devised and played to take spectators." Shak. Syn. -- Looker-on; beholder; observer; witness.
• DRINKING
  1. The act of one who drinks; the act of imbibing. 2. The practice of partaking to excess of intoxicating liquors. 3. An entertainment with liquors; a carousal. Note: Drinking is used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, a drinking
• SNEAKSBY
  A paltry fellow; a sneak. "Such a bashful sneaksby." Barrow.
• SPECTATORIAL
  Of or pertaining to a spectator. Addison.
• DRINKLESS
  Destitute of drink. Chaucer.
• VESSEL
  Any tube or canal in which the blood or other fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc. (more info) vascellum, dim. of vasculum, dim. of vas a vessel. Cf. Vascular, 1. A hollow or concave utensil for
• SNEAKER
  1. One who sneaks. Lamb. 2. A vessel of drink. A sneaker of five gallons. Spectator.
• OVERDRINK
  To drink to excess.
• AIR VESSEL
  A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pump, engine, etc. For the latter, see Air chamber. The air vessels of insects are called tracheæ, of plants spiral
• DEWAR VESSEL
  A double-walled glass vessel for holding liquid air, etc., having the space between the walls exhausted so as to prevent conduction of heat, and sometimes having the glass silvered to prevent absorption of radiant heat; -- called also, according
• BLOOD VESSEL
  Any vessel or canal in which blood circulates in an animal, as an artery or vein.
• UNVESSEL
  To cause to be no longer a vessel; to empty. Ford.
• OUTDRINK
  To exceed in drinking.
• TANK SHIP; TANK VESSEL
  A vessel fitted with tanks for the carrying of oil or other liquid in bulk.
• BY-DRINKING
  A drinking between meals.