upsetter
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]upsetter (plural upsetters)
- One who upsets (something); a disrupter.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, Part 1:
- And so were all Christians in Pliny's time, insane like others, and called not long after, followers of madness, upsetters of men, vicious innovators […]
- A person or device that turns something upside down.
- (metalworking) A kind of forging machine that moves horizontally.