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Fok⋅ker

[fok-er; Du. fok-uhr]
–noun
1. An⋅tho⋅ny Her⋅man Ge⋅rard [Du. ahn-toh-nee her-mahn gey-rahrt] , 1890–1939, Dutch airplane designer and builder.
2. an aircraft designed or built by Fokker, esp. as used by Germany in World War I.
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Fok·ker   (fŏk'ər, fô'kər)   
Dutch-born American aircraft designer and manufacturer who revolutionized aerial warfare by synchronizing a front-mounted machine gun to fire through the propeller of a plane (1915).
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