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dispatcher|dɪˈspætʃə(r)|
[f. as prec. + -er1.]
1. One who or that which dispatches, in various senses: see the verb. spec. (a) N. Amer. = train-dispatcher (see train n.1 22 b); (b) (see quot. 1954).
1547–64Bauldwin Mor. Philos. (Palfr.) v. vi, To the godly, death is the most happy messenger and quick dispatcher of all such displeasures. 1549Bale Pref. Leland's Itin. B iv. (T.), Avaryce was the other dyspatcher, whych hath made an ende both of our lybraryes and bokes without respect. 1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1631) III. xi. 551/2 marg., D. Story..the chiefe dispatcher of all Gods saints that suffered in Queene Maries time. 1611Cotgr., Dataire, the dater, or dispatcher of the Popes Bulls. 1755N. Magens Insurances II. 212 Likewise the Dispatcher of Averages. 1878A. Pinkerton Strikers xviii. 219 The conductor..promptly passed the dreaded word to the dispatcher. 1884A. Wainwright in Harper's Mag. July 272/2 The dispatcher, as the electrician is technically called, puts his finger upon a fourth key. 1886Pall Mall G. 31 Aug. 3/2 The despatcher of a telegram. 1931H. F. Pringle Th. Roosevelt ii. xii. 441 Orders were telephoned to the chief dispatcher of the Pennsylvania Railroad in New Jersey. A special train was to be made up. 1949F. Maclean Eastern Approaches ii. viii. 299 The dispatcher beckoned to us and Vivian and I..made fast the static lines to the special hooks on the inside of the fuselage. 1954X. Fielding Hide & Seek 227 The 'plane's despatcher—the sergeant responsible for launching the personnel and containers out of the body of the machine.
2. slang. (pl.) A kind of false dice: see quots.
1798Sporting Mag. XI. 85 How long it was since his conscience had permitted him to use dispatchers; these, he said, were loaded dice. 1894Maskelyne Sharps & Flats 237 Of unfair dice..there are those whose faces do not bear the correct number of pips, and which are known as ‘dispatchers’. Ibid. 238 A high dispatcher cannot throw less than two, whilst a low one cannot throw higher than three. |