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 Dun·ker /ˈdʌŋkɚ/

 Dun·ker prop. n.  One of a religious denomination whose tenets and practices are mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the Quakers; -- called also Tunkers, Dunkards, Dippers, and, by themselves, Brethren, and German Baptists, and they call their denomination the Church of the Brethren.
 Note: ☞ The denomination was founded in Germany in 1708, but after a few years the members emigrated to the United States; they were opposed to military service and taking legal oaths, and practiced trine immersion.
 Seventh-day Dunkers, a sect which separated from the Dunkers and formed a community, in 1728. They keep the seventh day or Saturday as the Sabbath.
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 dunker
      n 1: an eater who dips food into a liquid before eating it; "he
           was a dunker--he couldn't eat a doughnut without a cup
           of coffee to dunk it in"
      2: a basketball player who is able to make dunk shots
      3: an adherent of Baptistic doctrines (who practice baptism by
         immersion) [syn: Dunkard, Tunker]