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What (who) is knacker - definition

PERSON WHO REMOVES ANIMAL CARCASSES AND ROADKILL

Knackered; Knackers; Knackery; Knackers yard; Knacker's yard; Knackerman

Knacker

·noun a harness maker.

II. Knacker ·noun One who makes knickknacks, toys, ·etc.

III. Knacker ·noun One who slaughters worn-out horses and sells their flesh for dog's meat.

IV. Knacker ·noun One of two or more pieces of bone or wood held loosely between the fingers, and struck together by moving the hand;

- called also clapper.

knacker

(knackers)

A knacker is someone who buys up old horses and then kills them for their meat, bones, or leather. (BRIT INFORMAL)

Her horse was a show jumper whom the family rescued from the knacker's yard.

N-COUNT

knacker

Brit.

¦ noun

1. a person who disposes of dead or unwanted animals.

2. (knackers) vulgar slang testicles.

¦ verb [often as adjective knackered] informal exhaust; wear out.

?damage (something) severely.

Origin

C16 (orig. denoting a harness-maker): possibly from obs. knack 'trinket'; sense 2 may be from dialect knacker 'castanet'.

Wikipedia

Knacker

A knacker (), knackerman or knacker man is a person who removes and clears animal carcasses (dead, dying, injured) from private farms or public highways and renders the collected carcasses into by-products such as fats, tallow (yellow grease), glue, gelatin, bone meal, bone char, sal ammoniac, soap, bleach and animal feed. A knacker's yard or a knackery is different from a slaughterhouse or abattoir, where animals are slaughtered for human consumption. Since the Middle Ages, the occupation of "knacker man" was frequently considered a disreputable occupation. Knackers were often also commissioned by the courts as public executioners.

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Examples of use of knacker

1. So why the need to consult ‘community leaders‘? I don‘t remember Knacker of the Yard Nphoning the Bishop of Stepney before he arrested the Kray Twins.