(n.) A measure of certain commodities by number, usually ten or twelve, but sometimes twenty; as, a daker of hides consisted of ten skins; a daker of gloves of ten pairs.
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Fakir
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(n.) An Oriental religious ascetic or begging monk.
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(1) It made perfect sense to use to spread those kinds of features and hardware around the wrist instead of throwing them all into one thick lump under the screen on top of your wrist,” said Omer El Fakir, industrial designer of Blocks.
(2) "If they keep insisting that it must be Zuma – a candidate charged with fraud – the ANC is implying that no other person can lead the party, which is not true," Fakir said.
(3) With its glittering shrines, labyrinthine alleys and dreadlocked, often doped-out fakirs – holy men – Sehwan is the largest centre of pilgrimage for Pakistan's Sufi Muslims.
(4) Fakir is head of international relations and governance at the South African Department of Environmental Affairs, while McDonald is deputy director general of the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID).
(5) After the Highgate event, there was a retreat up the hill to the Old Crown Inn, where an ancient notice attached to the wall spelled out the Rules of the Inn: "No thieves, fakirs, rogues or tinkers."
(6) "We'd love to replicate the success of the Pebble," said El Fakir.
(7) He branded Gandhi "a half-naked fakir" who "ought to be laid, bound hand and foot, at the gates of Delhi and then trampled on by an enormous elephant with the new viceroy seated on its back".
(8) Ewen McDonald, from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, was appointed co-chair of the Green Climate Fund board alongside South Africa's Zaheer Fakir for the first year of its operations – from August 2012 to August this year.
(9) Ebrahim Fakir, senior researcher at the Johannesburg-based Centre for Policy Studies, said the ANC's position on Zuma had until now had been one of "manufactured consensus", but that dissenting voices may now begin to be heard.
(10) These were the South African representative Zaheer Fakir and Australia's Ewen McDonald, who had been favourite to win the post.