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Webster 1913 Edition
Dunker
Dun′ker
,p
rop.
Noun.
[G.
tunken
to dip.] 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
. 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.