trimmer
See also: Trimmer
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Adjective
trimmer
- comparative form of trim: more trim
Noun
trimmer (plural trimmers)
- One who trims, arranges, fits, or ornaments.
- 1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, “Life Loves Living,”[1]
- It put me to endless expense of having roof-men, gutter-men and tree-trimmers. At last I gave the grim order, “Cut her down.”
- 1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, “Life Loves Living,”[1]
- A device used to trim.
- My new electric shaver has a beard trimmer attachment.
- (nautical) A member of the crew who trims the sails.
- Someone who fluctuates between opposing factions, political parties etc., according to current interest, a flip-flopper.
- 1848, Baron Macaulay, History of England, I.2:
- Thus Halifax was a Trimmer on principle.
- 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 9:
- Lady Margaret Beaufort's third husband, Lord Stanley, an accomplished political trimmer, gave fair words but little commitment: the vast, well-armed Stanley retinues shadowed Henry's route southeast to the battlefield and waited, detached, to see how the chips fell.
- 1848, Baron Macaulay, History of England, I.2:
- (architecture) A beam into which are framed the ends of headers in floor framing, as when a hole is to be left for stairs, or to avoid bringing joists near chimneys.
- (mining, historical) A person employed to rearrange the coal in the hold of a vessel, so that it fills the vessel without forming a conical blockage.
- (mining, historical) A device for storing coal in gradually increasing piles made by building up at the point of the cone or top of the prism.
- (fishing) A float bearing a baited hook and line, used in fishing for pike.
- (dated) One who trims, or rebukes or reproves; a scold.
Derived terms
Translations
trimming device
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