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▪ I. stealer1|ˈstiːlə(r)|
[f. steal v.1 + -er.]
One who steals; a thief; now only, one who steals something specified.
1500–20Dunbar Poems xxvii. 11 Off stomok steillaris and clayth takkaris, A graceless garisoun. 1508Reg. Privy Seal Scot. I. 283/1 He dredis that the stelaris of it [a seal] hes fenȝeit and maid fals lettrez..on his behalff. 1538Elyot Dict., Plagiarius,..also a stealer of bokes. 1547–64Baldwin Mor. Philos. 60 Cut off stealers hands. Hang up theeves and robbers. 1583Babington Commandm. 338 The cause why the stealer stole was want of labouring in his calling. 1585Higins Junius' Nomencl. 528/1 Mango,..a stealer away of mens children of seruants that selleth and buyeth them. 1649J. Owen Serm. H. of C., Of Toleration 44 If so, why doe Adulterers unmolested, behold the violent death of Stealers. 1769Cook 1st Voy. i. xv. in Hawkesw. Voy. (1773) II. 157 A Chief..whose father's name was Pahairedo, the stealer of boats. 1829Bentham Justice & Cod. Petit. 29 The authority, from which the power was thus filched, was..that of some judge or judges, co-ordinate with that of the stealers. 1878B. Taylor Pr. Deukalion i. v. 45 Older than thou, the stealer of the fire!
b. slang. the ten stealers: the fingers.
[1603Shakes. Ham. iii. ii. 349 By these pickers and stealers.] a1639R. Davenport K. John & Matilda iii. i, Since they have neither eaten bit nor drunk drop, nor by these ten stealers shall not, till I heare againe from my Lord.
▪ II. stealer2 Naut.|ˈstiːlə(r)|
Also steeler.
[The same word as prec.: cf. steal v.1 7.]
(See quots.)
1805Shipwright's Vade-M. 201 It is therefore customary to work, in the bow of such ships, a steeler next under the wale. 1815Falconer's Dict. Marine (ed. Burney), Steeler, in ship-building, the foremost or aftmost plank in a strake, which is dropped short of the stem of stern-post. 1852Fincham Ship Build. ii. (ed. 3) 26 These planks are called steelers. 1874Thearle Nav. Archit. 50 The last plank of the strake which does not extend right forward or aft, as the case may be, is termed a ‘stealer’. |