subs. (old).—A cattle-lifter.
16[?]. Poem of 17th Century (quoted by Nares).
| The seventeenth a DUN-AKER, that maketh his vows | |
| To go i’ the country and steal all their cows. |
1693. HERRICK (‘Poor Robin’). Mercury is in a conjunction with Venus, and when such conjunctions happen, it signifies a most plentiful crop that year, of hectors … DONNAKERS, cross-biters, etc.
1811. GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.
