Definition of "quakers" []

• The quaking-grass. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• ""Sham troubles, Master Nic -- wooden guns, as we call quakers out at sea or in a fort."
• ""Whereas," says the preamble, "an accursed race of heretics called quakers has sprung up," &c. The clauses of the statute inflict a heavy fine on all captains of ships who should import quakers into the country."
• "About this time that set of heretics, called quakers, endeavoured to sow their tares in Fenwick parish, when Mr. Guthrie was some weeks absent, about his own private affairs in Angus."