Brewer's: 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

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