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George Sinker George Sinker (5 May 1900 – 19 January 1986) was bishop of Nagpur and provost of Birmingham Cathedral. He was born in Hyderabad, India, the son of the Reverend R Sinker, and was educated at Rossall School and Brasenose College, Oxford. In 19 ...

(1900–1986), MA, Bishop of Nagpur and Provost of Birmingham Cathedral * John Sinker (1874–1936), MA, an Anglican priest and author Other uses: * Sinker (fishing), a weight used in fishing * Sinker (baseball), a type of baseball pitch *

Sinker (mining) A sinker in mining in the 19th century was a worker who specialized in creating new vertical mine shaft Shaft mining or shaft sinking is the action of excavating a mine shaft from the top down, where there is initially no access to the bottom. ...

, a person who is employed to sink new shafts * Sinker, a character in ''

Beyond the Black Stump ''Beyond the Black Stump'' is a novel by British author Nevil Shute. It was first published in the UK by Heinemann (book publisher), William Heinemann Ltd, in 1956. Plot summary The story concerns a young American geologist, Stanton Laird, wor ...

'', an Australian comic strip * Sinker nail, commonly used in wood-frame construction *

Sinker root A taproot is a large, central, and dominant root from which other roots sprout laterally. Typically a taproot is somewhat straight and very thick, is tapering in shape, and grows directly downward. In some plants, such as the carrot, the taproo ...

, an enlarged, somewhat straight to tapering plant root that grows vertically downward

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