sinker

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: sink=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

sinker, n. 

 One who, or that which, sinks.  [1913 Webster]

Dividing sinker, in knitting machines, a sinker between two jack sinkers and acting alternately with them. -- Jack sinker. See under Jack, n. -- Sinker bar. (a) In knitting machines, a bar to which one set of the sinkers is attached. (b) In deep well boring, a heavy bar forming a connection between the lifting rope and the boring tools, above the jars.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

sinker, n.
1 a weight used to sink a fishing-line or sounding-line.
2 US a doughnut.

THESAURUS

sinker

Brussels biscuit, Melba toast, apple fritter, beignet, beignet aux pommes, biscuit, bismarck, bob, bowl, cast, change of pace, change-up, chuck, chunk, cracker, cruller, curve, doughnut, downcurve, fastball, fastnacht, fling, flip, forward pass, friedcake, fritter, graham cracker, hardtack, heave, hurl, incurve, knuckleball, lateral, lateral pass, lead, lob, olykoek, outcurve, pass, peg, pilot biscuit, pitch, plumb, plummet, pretzel, put, raised doughnut, rusk, saltine, sandbag, screwball, sea biscuit, serve, service, ship biscuit, shot-put, shy, slider, sling, soda cracker, spitball, spitter, throw, toss, twister, upcurve, wafer, weight, zwieback