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Nicker
One who nicks or hits a mark exactly. Certain night-larkers,
whose game was to break windows with halfpence, assumed this name in
the early part of the eighteenth century.
His scattered pence the flying Nicker flings,
And with the copper shower the casement rings.
Gay: Trivia, iii
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Nicker from Infoplease:
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