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drainer|ˈdreɪnə(r)|
[f. as prec. + -er1.]
1. One who drains; esp. one whose business is to construct field-drains.
1611Cotgr., Espuiseur, a drayner; exhauster, emptier of moisture. a1661Fuller Worthies, Bedfordsh. 115 The Drayners of the fenns have..secured the County against his power for the future. 1667Duchess of Newcastle Life Dk. of N. iv. (1886) 224 It is a part of prudence in a common⁓wealth or kingdom to encourage drainers. 1717S. Sewall Diary 23 Aug. (1882) III. 136 Gave the workmen 2s., Dreaners 6d. 1837Howitt Rur. Life vi. xv. (1862) 576 As the drainer cuts his drain in the greensward of the meadows. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. ix. 1277 This drainer to the dregs O' the draught of conversation.
fig.1637Wotton in Reliq. Wotton. (1672) 105, I must note the Pope's Legats and Dreyners. 1824Byron Juan xv. iv, The drainer of oblivion, even the sot.
2. That which drains; a drain; a vessel in which moist substances are put to drain.
1598Florio, Gocciolatoio, a gutter or drainer in a house. 1662Sir W. Dugdale Hist. Embank. & Drain. (1772) 164 An old gote and drainer called Symond's gote. 1696Edwards Demonstr. Exist. God ii. 99 The gall-bladder in the hollow part of the liver, is the dreiner for choler. 1730A. Gordon Maffei's Amphith. 319 He makes his Theatre to have had Drainers for Water, and a Roof. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 208 While the curd is pressing in the drainer, it ought to be set before a good fire. 1880J. Lomas Alkali Trade 229 The white salt in the drainer may be washed with water. |