rare. [f. KIRK sb. + -ER1.] A member or adherent of the ‘kirk,’ i.e., the Church of Scotland. Now Obs. exc. colloq. in comb., as Auld Kirker (an adherent of the ‘auld kirk’), Free Kirker.
1680. G. Hickes, Spirit of Popery, 5. Which is the Kirk, and Kirkers usual sence of free grace, according to the Assemblies larger and shorter Catechisms.
1716. M. Davies, Athen. Brit., II. 310. Twenty Episcopals … to one Kirker of the Calvinistical Order.
1893. Daily News, 10 June, 5/8. ‘What aboot the bluid of the ministers wha are na’ auld Kirkers?’ his companion,… a Free Kirker, rejoined.
