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explorer|ɛkˈsplɔərə(r)|
[f. as prec. + -er1.]
1. One who explores (a country or place).
1740Warburton Div. Legat. iv. vi. II. 288 The report of the cowardly Explorers of the land. 1812Sir R. Wilson Diary I. 375 The explorers enter, and immediately find themselves in a marble cave. 1848W. H. Bartlett Egypt to Pal. xxvii. (1879) 537 A rich harvest may be awaiting the antiquarian explorer [at Ephesus]. 1856E. A. Bond Russia at Close 16th C. (Hakluyt Soc.) Introd. 19 Anthony Jenkinson, the enterprising explorer of the Persian route to India. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. i. 8 An explorer of the Alps.
fig.1872Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. lxiv. 6 These are..explorers in iniquity.
†2. One who or that which examines or tests.
1684–5Boyle Min. Waters 40 The extent of this explorer of Waters [a Powder] is not very great.
3. An apparatus for exploring or examining; spec.
a. (see quot. 1874);
b. an apparatus for exploring a wound or a cavity in a tooth.
1874Knight Dict. Mech. I. 817/2 Explorer, an apparatus by which the bottom of a body of water is examined, when not beyond a certain depth. 1884Syd. Soc. Lex., Electrical explorer, an apparatus for detecting a bullet or other metallic substance in the tissues. |