Bible Dictionaries
Sinker

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) One who, or that which, sinks.

(2):

(n.) In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles.

(3):

(n.) A weight on something, as on a fish line, to sink it.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Sinker'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​s/sinker.html. 1828.