English-Finnish translations for sinker

• paino
  Kivi on paperin päällä painona.
  Lyijyä käytetään ongessa painona.
  kristallinen paperipaino

Definition of sinker

• One who sinks something
• A weight used in fishing to cause the line or net to sink
• Any of several high speed pitches that have a downward motion near the plate; a two-seam fastball, a split-finger fastball, or a forkball
• Sinker nail, used for framing in current construction
• In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles

Examples

• Hook the sinker onto this loop.
• His sinkers drew one ground ball after another.

Related words

• sinker root
• hook, line and sinker
• fishing sinker