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fabricator|ˈfæbrɪkeɪtə(r)|
[a. L. fabricātor, f. fabricāre: see fabricate.]
1. One who or that which frames or fashions.
c1645Howell Lett. iii. ix, The Almighty fabricator of the Universe doth nothing in vain. 1765Ellis in Phil. Trans. LV. 283 These worms appeared evidently, instead of being the fabricators of it, to have pierced their way into the soft substance. 1844Disraeli Coningsby vii. iii. 262 The grotesque genius of its fabricator. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 413 Domestic fabricators are too apt to fail in this particular, thinking that when they have mixed together a portion of sugar and fruit their labour is done. 1860Farrar Orig. Lang. i. 26 The Deity as the fabricator of Adam's language. 1863Lyell Antiq. Man ix. (ed. 3) 166 They teach us that the fabricators of the antique tools..were all post-glacial.
2. In bad sense: One who frames a false statement or forges a document; a forger.
1795Mason Ch. Mus. iii. 191 The Translator or Fabricator of the Works of Ossian. 1796Bp. Watson Apol. Bible 231 Had they been fabricators of these genealogies, they would have been exposed at the time to instant detection. 1863M. E. Braddon Eleanor's Vict. III. vi. 82 The fabricator of a forged will.
3. Archæol. A rod-shaped flint implement, perh. used in the manufacture of other flint tools. (See also quot. 1954.)
1872J. Evans Anc. Stone Implem. 367 A characteristic specimen of the tool to which I have provisionally assigned the name of ‘flaking-tool’ or fabricator. 1877W. Greenwell Brit. Barrows 35 Those [sc. articles found in barrows] of flint, include hatchets; scrapers;..fabricators or flaking tools. 1930Antiquity IV. 27 ‘Fabricators’ are rare, borers very rare, and calcined flints (‘potboilers’) exceedingly scarce. 1954S. Piggott Neolithic Cultures x. 286 There is good evidence for regarding a large proportion of ‘fabricators’ as strike-a-lights used with pyrites to produce a spark. |