Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Drinker
drink (drank, drinking, drunk, drunken)drip
drinker, n. [see drink, v.]
- Sipper; imbiber; partaker.
- Phrase. “Gentile Drinker”: communicant; participant in the Last Supper; [fig.] disciple; apostle; follower of Christ; convert to the faith (see Acts 9:15, 10:9-45, 13:47-48, 15:3).
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