▪ I. daker
Also daiker, dakir.
[a. OF. dacre, dakere, med.L. dacra: see dicker.]
Variant of dicker, a set of ten.
| 1531 Aberdeen Burgh Rec. xiii. 248 The dakir of hidis. 1597 Skene De Verb. Sign. s.v. Serplaith, Ten hides makis ane daiker, and twentie daiker makis ane last. 1753 Maitland Hist. Edin. iii. 248 For every Daker of Hides landed at Leith—8 pennies. 1866 Rogers Agric. & Prices I. 171 The dicker or daker was..a measure for hides and gloves. |
▪ II. daker
var. of dacker.