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Ranker   /rˈæŋkər/   Listen
Ranker

noun
1.
A commissioned officer who has been promoted from enlisted status.
2.
An enlisted soldier who serves in the ranks of the armed forces.






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"Ranker" Quotes from Famous Books



... conscious of moving through the days of his life's stateliest fulfillment. Boylan was nearest; a little back from the rest Poltneck stood smiling, singing as he had never sung for the Little Father. It is a fact that the old ranker waited for the end of ...
— Red Fleece • Will Levington Comfort

... several parts, or small bulbs, called cloves, which are encased in a covering of thin white skin. Garlic has a very strong penetrating odor and a biting taste that resemble the odor and taste of onion, but that are much ranker. It is little used by Americans except as a flavoring for salads and various kinds of highly seasoned meats. In reality, a very small amount of garlic is sufficient to lend enough flavor, and so the bowl in which a salad is served is often merely rubbed with garlic before ...
— Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 2 - Volume 2: Milk, Butter and Cheese; Eggs; Vegetables • Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

... Poetaster shall make thee a play, and thou shalt be a man of good parts in it. But stay, let me see; do not bring your AEsop, your politician, unless you can ram up his mouth with cloves; the slave smells ranker than some sixteen dunghills, and is seventeen times more rotten. Marry, you may bring Frisker, my zany; he's a good skipping swaggerer; and your fat fool there, my mango, bring him too; but let him not beg rapiers nor scarfs, ...
— The Poetaster - Or, His Arraignment • Ben Jonson

... Iowa, or Springfield, Ohio. He would be sturdy and strong of body and given to the eating of rather rank foods, as such men are. Also he would be a fellow of books and in his thinking inclined toward the ranker philosophies. He was dragged into the war because he was a German, and he had steeped his soul in the German philosophy of might. Faintly, I fancy, there was another notion in his head that kept bothering him, and so to serve his ...
— Triumph of the Egg and Other Stories • Sherwood Anderson



Words linked to "Ranker" :   soldier, United Kingdom, U.K., Britain, rank, UK, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commissioned officer, Great Britain



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