sinkers in English
noun
1
a weight used to sink a fishing line or sounding line.
The Cod were playing hard to get and the squid baits had to be just about holding the bottom, so that if you lifted the sinker off the bottom by a few yards, the tide would wash the end rig a few yards further downtide.
2
a pitch that drops markedly as it nears home plate.
But I wasn't looking for that pitch because he was now throwing sinkers away.
3
a type of windsurfing board of insufficient buoyancy to support a person unless moving fast.
In 1981 Jaap beat his own record with 25.2 knots on a new sinker .
4
a doughnut.
We had some sinkers for breakfast and I can feel them yet.
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1. Skinny tightrope walkers, feet weighted with fishing sinkers, traversed the high wire.
2. The Egyptians worked deposits of the lead ore galena at Gebel Rosas to make net sinkers, plumb bobs, and small figurines.
3. Among the conclusions of the lead shot and sinkers session was that steel shot, as a substitute for lead, had "inferior ballistic qualities, but [is] effective within accepted shotgun range."