"nikker" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "nikkers",
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        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "A sea devil.",
          "word": "nicker"
        }
      ],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1877, Charles Mackay, The Gaelic Etymology of the Languages of Western Europe: And More Especially of the English and Lowland Scotch, and Their Slang, Cant, and Colloquial Dialects, page 265",
          "text": "Davy Jones's Locker [...] A sailor's name for a principal sea-devil, a nikker. - HALLIWELL.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, Donald Alexander Mackenzie, The World's Heritage of Epical, Heroic and Romantic Literature, page 12",
          "text": "... and killing sea-nikkers by night. Alone will I combat with this demon, the giant Grendel . . . I shall wrestle for life, foe against foe.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1961, Sietze Buning, A Linguistic Analysis of Words Referring to Monsters in Beowulf, volume 2, page 280",
          "text": "Whether the monster slain is a sea-dragon or a nikker remains a problem. […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 March 29, Edith Elizabeth Wardale, Revival: Chapters on Old English Literature (1935), Routledge",
          "text": "If the poet has mixed up Danish and English scenery in his mere, and the \"nikkers\" and other monsters have no business in an English lake, they are most certainly there.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 June 12, Louis Tracy, The Greatest Mysteries of Louis Tracy: 14 Novels in One Edition, DigiCat",
          "text": "\"A nikker is Davy Jones, / Just one more plug, an' a swig at the jug, / An' up with the skull an' bones.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of nicker (“A sea devil.”)"
      ],
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        "(uncommon) Alternative form of nicker (“A sea devil.”)"
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  "word": "nikker"
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      "tags": [
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      "expansion": "nikker (plural nikkers)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "extra": "A sea devil.",
          "word": "nicker"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "1877, Charles Mackay, The Gaelic Etymology of the Languages of Western Europe: And More Especially of the English and Lowland Scotch, and Their Slang, Cant, and Colloquial Dialects, page 265",
          "text": "Davy Jones's Locker [...] A sailor's name for a principal sea-devil, a nikker. - HALLIWELL.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, Donald Alexander Mackenzie, The World's Heritage of Epical, Heroic and Romantic Literature, page 12",
          "text": "... and killing sea-nikkers by night. Alone will I combat with this demon, the giant Grendel . . . I shall wrestle for life, foe against foe.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1961, Sietze Buning, A Linguistic Analysis of Words Referring to Monsters in Beowulf, volume 2, page 280",
          "text": "Whether the monster slain is a sea-dragon or a nikker remains a problem. […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 March 29, Edith Elizabeth Wardale, Revival: Chapters on Old English Literature (1935), Routledge",
          "text": "If the poet has mixed up Danish and English scenery in his mere, and the \"nikkers\" and other monsters have no business in an English lake, they are most certainly there.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 June 12, Louis Tracy, The Greatest Mysteries of Louis Tracy: 14 Novels in One Edition, DigiCat",
          "text": "\"A nikker is Davy Jones, / Just one more plug, an' a swig at the jug, / An' up with the skull an' bones.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "Alternative form of nicker (“A sea devil.”)"
      ],
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        ],
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        ]
      ],
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        "(uncommon) Alternative form of nicker (“A sea devil.”)"
      ],
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