[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

dunker \dun"ker\, prop. n. 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.
   1913 webster

   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.
         1913 webster + wordnet 1.5

   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.
      1913 webster
see also:
tunkers dunkards dippers brethren german baptists seventh-day dunkers 

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