subs. (colloquial).—A heavy rain. See SOAK.
1851–61. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, I. 314. Well, sir, suppose it’s a SOAKER in the morning … then, may be, after all, it comes out a fine day.
1883. GREENWOOD, Tag, Rag, & Co., ‘From London to York.’ That countryman was right when he prognosticated a ‘SOAKER.’
