Hanker
Also in form pnkerse.Wor.1 [h)a-nka(r, »-rjk3(r).] 1.
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Also in form pnkerse.Wor.1 [h)a-nka(r, »-rjk3(r).] 1. v. To entangle in, become fastened on.
Joseph Wright, English Dialect Dictionary (1898–1905)
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