throttler

English

Etymology

throttle +‎ -er

Noun

throttler (plural throttlers)

1. (sometimes figuratively) One who or that which throttles.
   • Missionary Review of the World; 1878-1939 (volume 20, part 2, page 723)

     […] a crowd of ragged, discharged soldiers, who, having served a government which takes and never gives, returning home without pay, took vengeance on the legalized throttlers of travel and trade.

   • 1996, James J. Townsend, Web Development with Microsoft Resources, page 191:

     Current Blocked Async I/O Requests is the number of current asynchronous I/O requests blocked by bandwidth throttler.