nicker

To neigh softly.

A demon of the water; a water-sprite; a nix or nixy.

A neigh; also, a vulgar laugh.

To neigh.

To laugh with half-suppressed catches of the voice; snigger.

One who or that which nicks.

One of a company of brawlers who in the early part of the eighteenth century roamed about London by night, amusing themselves with breaking people’s windows.

A kind of marble for children’s play.

One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with half-pence.

The cutting lip which projects downward at the edge of a boring bit and cuts a circular groove in the wood to limit the size of the hole that is bored.