chancre
(ˈʃæŋkə(r))
Also 7–8 shanker, chanker, 8 shancre.
[a. F. chancre cancer, also venereal ulcer:—L. cancer crab. Cf. cancer, canker.]
1. An ulcer occurring in venereal diseases.
| a 1605 Montgomerie Flyting 308 The chaud-peece, the chanker. 1657 S. Colvil Whigs Supplic. (1751) 50 When..They first brought Shankers ov'r the alps. 1789 W. Buchan Dom. Med. (1790) 507 Symptomatic chancres are commonly accompanied with ulcers in the throat. 1872 Cohen Dis. Throat 113 Chancres about the lips, tongue, and hard palate, produced by actual contact. 1881 Syd. Soc. Lex., According to most modern authorities, this soft chancre or local contagious ulcer..is not a syphilitic, although a venereal, disease, the Hunterian or hard chancre being the local manifestation of syphilis. |
2. A disease incident to the tobacco-plant, said to be caused by Bacillus æruginosus.
| 1903 Nature 17 Sept. 492/2 On a bacterial disease of tobacco, ‘chancre’ or ‘anthracnose’, by M. G. Delacroix. |
Hence ˈchancred a.
| 1708 Motteux Rabelais (1737) V. 217 Shanker'd, colliflower'd..Martyrs and Confessors of Venus. |