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▪ I. stirrer|ˈstɜːrə(r)|
Forms: see stir v. Also 7 stirrier (sense 3 b).
[f. stir v. + -er1.]
One who or something which stirs, in various senses.
1. a. One who or something which excites or provokes something, as strife, passion, etc., or incites a person to something; an inciter, instigator; † a promoter (obs.); † an exhorter (obs.).
1382Wyclif 2 Macc. iv. 1 Symont..spake yuel of Onye, as..he hadde be stirer of yuels [Vulg. incentor malorum]. 1399Rolls of Parlt. III. 451/2 The man..sayd, that he was noght controevour, ne fyrst doer, no styrer of the Bille. c1449Pecock Repr. iii. viii. 324 Bischopis and abbotis, whiche schulden be grete sterers to the lay partie into deedis of pitee. 1455Rolls of Parlt. V. 282/1 Thaire Assistours, Helpours, Sturrers, Confortours, and Counseillours aforesaid. 1543in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford (1880) 170 Itt appeared the Mayor to have ben a great sturrer of this garboyle. 1545King's Primer, Lauds, Hymn C iij b, Christ the styrer of the hert. 1599Thynne Animadv. (1875) 74 This woorde ‘Minoresse’ sholde bee ‘Moueresse,’ signyfyinge ‘a mover or styrrer to debate’. 1609Holland Amm. Marcell. xiv. ix. 21 The principall stirrers of those tumults and seditions. 1632Marmion Holland's Leaguer ii. ii. D 4, With Musicke, Songs, and dancing, such as are The stirrers of hot appetites. 1635H. Sydenham Serm. (1637) 74 This is..the prime wheele and stirrer of all our turbulent motions. 1695Locke Reasonabl. Chr. (1696) 178 A stirrer of Sedition against the Publick Peace. 1817Byron Manfred i. i. 101, I am the Rider of the Wind, The Stirrer of the storm. 1849James Woodman xix, This Morton is..the stirrer of every trouble in the realm. 1876Morris Sigurd iv. 378 No stirrer nor stayer of strife. 1890Illustr. Lond. News 6 Sept. 298/3 You a stirrer of passions—you a minstrel!
b. Often with up: cf. stir v. 16.
1532Tindale Exp. v–vii. Matt. (? 1550) 19 Cursed be..sterers [1573 stirrers] vp of princes to batayle & warre. 1563–83Foxe A. & M. 1257/2 He was a styrrer vp of sedition & commotion. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. II. 357 He was author, and steiryr vp of the first president of Orknay. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 57 The chiefe stirrer vp of the King vnto this war, was one Gerbert. 1605A. Warren Poor Man's Pass. E 2 b, Sedition-sowers, stirrers vp of strife. 1641J. Jackson True Evang. T. 37 Maximinus, the stirrer up of the sixt Persecution. 1716Atterbury Serm. (1734) I. 222 There is scarce any Truth so bright and clear, but that an Industrious Stirrer up of Doubts may do somewhat towards clouding and darkning it. 1800Coleridge Piccolom. i. xii. 66 That long-practised stirrer-up Of insurrection. 1908Academy 6 June 853/2 Goethe was undoubtedly..a tireless stirrer-up of ideas.
†c. One who makes a commotion, or raises a tumult; an agitator. Obs.
c1450tr. De Imitatione iii. xxviii. (1893) 97 Kepe þou þiself in gode pees, and lete þe stirer stire [L. dimitte agitantem agitare] as muche as he wol. 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades iii. ix. 449 These fellowes are seditious stirrers. 1610Carleton Jurisd. 125 These Pharises, he describeth to be seditious and intollerable stirrers in States. 1612Sir G. Paule Abp. Whitgift 48 The afore-said stirrers, and seditious attempts of sundry persons in this our Archbishops time. a1637B. Jonson Underwoods, To Mem. Sir L. Cary 30 What did this Stirrer, but die late? a1660Contemp. Hist. Irel. (Ir. Archæol. Soc.) I. 101 This good man will not trust any bodie..but those religions that are inative styrers of the present and other faction.
d. One who stirs up trouble or discontent; an agitator, a trouble-maker. colloq. (chiefly Austral.).
1963T. & P. Morris Pentonville xi. 247 Other prisoners described him as a stirrer rather than a leader in that he got others to do the dirty work for him. 1970Sunday Truth (Brisbane) 28 June 4/3 He was no stirrer. He came quietly to Brisbane made the scene for six months or so then quietly drifted back a few weeks ago to his favorite haunts around Kings Cross. 1973C. Mason Hostage vii. 104 ‘You're a born boat-rocker.’ ‘D'you think so? A stirrer, they'd call it at home.’ 1977Sounds 9 July 15/2 He's an absolute stirrer with very little concept of what our job is. 1982Observer 13 June 16/1 Jessica Mitford is what Australians call a stirrer, meaning a person with a talent for causing trouble.
2. In physical sense:
a. An instrument or appliance for stirring a liquid or the like.
c1450Two Cookery Bks. ii. 107 Sterre it well with ij sturrers. 1600Surflet Country Farm v. xxiii. 725 Leauing the same for the space of an hower to drinke in this water: afterward they put the meale aside with their stirrers. 1688Holme Armoury iii. xx. (Roxb.) 247/1 The Third, is called a Padle or Mundle..; some call it a sturer; which is to stire vp the Tallow and turn it about in the pan whilest it is in melting. 1803Phil. Trans. XCIII. 122 The whole being well melted, was stirred with a large earthen stirrer. 1813T. Rudge Agric. Surv. Glouc. 222 The stirrer, reever, and shovel used in the process [of cider making]. 1827Faraday Chem. Manip. vi. (1842) 174 Besides these vessels, stirrers are frequently required in the progress of these operations. They should be made of solid glass rod. 1845G. Dodd Brit. Manuf. V. 67 (Vinegar.) The mash-tuns..are circular vessels with a central ‘stirrer’ or instrument for keeping in constant agitation the ingredients which may be in the tuns. 1852C. Morfit Tanning & Currying (1853) 163 To make a fresh vat, quicklime is thrown in, covered with water, and agitated with a stirrer. 1856J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. s.v. Plough, The stirrer, or acting tine, has a chisel-edge with a sloping front, down the middle of which is a vertical tine. 1884Health Exhib. Catal. 110/1 Model Steam Jam Boiling Pan, with Revolving Stirrer in action.
b. One who troubles (a stream).
1851Trench Poems, Leg. Alhambra 36 How, rising from that watery floor, A Moorish maiden..stands before The stirrer of the stream.
3. a. One who moves about; esp. in early stirrer, one who is up early.
1538Elyot Dict., Ambulator, a walker or styrer. a1560T. Phaer æneid viii. Z 1, Nor morning styrer lesse, æneas then abroad was stalkt. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iii. ii. 3 An early stirrer, by the Rood! 1607Dekker Westw. Hoe ii. i. B 4, I had not thought..you had bin such an early stirrer. 1620Fletcher Chances i. iii, And longer to expect my friend may pull me Into suspition of too late a stirrer, Which all good Governments are jealous of. 1638Baker tr. Balzac's Lett. (vol. III.) 131 The Prince I speak of, is a stirrer, and makes no stay any where. 1828Coleridge Alice du Clos 143 Two stirrers only met my eyes, Fair Alice, and one more. 1855Dickens Dorrit ii. xxv, They both looked up at the sunny morning sky, into which..the breath and voices of a few early stirrers were peacefully rising.
b. A person or animal that moves briskly; one who bestirs himself, an active person. † Of a horse: see stirring vbl. n. 3 b, stirring ppl. a. 2 b.
1573Tusser Husb. lxxiii. (1878) 164 As huswiues keepe home, and be stirrers about, So speedeth their winnings. 1575Blundevil Art of Riding ii. i. D vj, If your horse be nimble..you maye make him a sterer, by teachinge him to bounde aloft, and to yarke withall: to galloppe [etc.]. 1611Cotgr., s.v. Reposer, Qui va, il leche; qui repose, il seiche: Prov. The stirrer thriues, the lazie house-Doue pines. 1639T. de la Grey Compl. Horsem. 6 Instead of a stirrier or horse for mannage, you have bred him fit for nought. 1657R. Ligon Barbadoes (1673) 58 For Hawkes, I never saw but two, and those the merriest stirrers that ever I saw fly.
▪ II. stirrer, stirrile, -ill
obs. ff. steerer, sterile. |