Knacker
[nak-er] /ˈnæk ər/
noun, British.
1.
a person who buys animal carcasses or slaughters useless livestock for a or rendering works.
2.
a person who buys and dismembers old houses, ships, etc., to salvage usable parts, selling the rest as scrap.
3.
Dialect. an old, sick, or useless farm animal, especially a horse.
4.
Obsolete. a harness maker; a saddler.
/ˈnækə/
noun
1.
a person who buys up old horses for slaughter
2.
a person who buys up old buildings and breaks them up for scrap
3.
(usually pl) (slang) another word for testicle
4.
(Irish, slang) a despicable person
verb
5.
(transitive; usually passive) (slang) to exhaust; tire
v.
usually in past tense, knackered, “to kill, castrate” (1855), but most often used in weakened sense of “to tire out” (1883); apparently from knacker (n.) “worn-out or useless horse,” 1812, of unknown origin; possibly from a dialectal survival of a Scandinavian word represented by Old Norse hnakkur “saddle,” hnakki “back of the neck,” and thus possibly related to neck (n.).
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