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▪ I. stiller1|ˈstɪlə(r)|
[f. still v.1 + -er1.]
1. One who or something which makes still.
1608J. King Serm. St. Mary's, Oxf. 27 The stiller of wars, and extinguisher of rebellions. 1845–6Trench Huls. Lect. Ser. i. i. 157 The stiller of creation's groans. 1849Tait's Mag. XVI. 292/1 That is your true stiller of tempests.
2. (See quots.)
1862C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds 422 Stiller, a piece of wood placed on the surface of water in a pail to steady it, when carried any distance. 1874R. G. White Words & Uses 213 Floating on the top of the water was a disc of wood a little less in diameter than the rim of the pail. ‘What's that, my lass?’ he asked. ‘That?’ (with surprise); ‘why, that's a stiller.’
▪ II. stiller2|ˈstɪlə(r)|
[f. still v.2 + -er1.]
One who distils; a distiller.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Chapelier,..a stiller. 1615in Issues of Exch. (1836) 328 To the stiller for his ordinary allowances in stilling of waters. 1757A. Cooper Distiller i. ii. (1760) 20 How far the fine Stiller may profit by it, well deserves his Attention. 1902Blackw. Mag. Aug. 260/1 He was a poacher and a stiller of whisky of course. |