a religious sect of Baptists in Pennsylvania, so called from the word tunker, to put a morsel in fauce. They are also called tumblers, because in performing baptism they plunge the person into the water with the head first. As the Germans found the letters t and b like d and p, the words tunkers and tumblers, have been sometimes written dunkers and dumplers. Their church government and discipline are the same with those of the English Baptists, except that every brother is allowed to speak in the congregation, and the best speaker is usually ordained to be their minister. They are a harmless, well meaning people.