north. dial. form of QUAKER.
1700. in Sir C. Sharp, Chron. Mirab. (1841), 51. Att ye Whakers metting house.
1802. R. Anderson, Ball. Cumbld. (1805), 22. The neist was a Whaker, caw’d Jacob, He turn’d up the wheyte o’ his een.
north. dial. form of QUAKER.
1700. in Sir C. Sharp, Chron. Mirab. (1841), 51. Att ye Whakers metting house.
1802. R. Anderson, Ball. Cumbld. (1805), 22. The neist was a Whaker, caw’d Jacob, He turn’d up the wheyte o’ his een.
