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finisher|ˈfɪnɪʃə(r)|
[f. as prec. + -er1.]
1. One who or that which finishes (in the different senses of the vb.).
1526Tindale Heb. xii. 2 Jesus the auctor and fynnyssher of oure fayth. 1587Golding De Mornay Ep. Ded., God the verie founder, furtherer and finisher of trueth. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. xlii. 85 The other a finisher of all his troubles. 1667Milton P.L. xii. 375 O Prophet of glad tidings, finisher Of utmost hope! 1786Sir J. Reynolds Disc. xiii. (1876) 69 A portrait by Denner, or any other high finisher. 1827Sporting Mag. XX. 267 By way of a finisher, washing..the flax in the rivers kills hundreds of fish. 1875Lowell Spenser Prose Wks. (1890) IV. 297 note, With all his abundance, he was evidently a laborious finisher. 1963P. Drackett Motor Rallying 90 To be classed as a finisher a car must arrive at the final control..within half an hour or such other period of time as may be specified.
2. spec.
a. In various trades: The workman, or machine, that performs the final operation in manufacture.
1691Southerne Sir A. Love iii. i, I am poor Courtant your Taylor's finisher. 1835Ure Philos. Manuf. 169 This finisher carding-engine is furnished with finer teeth than the scribbler. 1869T. Leicester in Eng. Mech. 3 Dec. 282/1 It is then passed on to the finisher or workman. 1875Ure's Dict. Arts I. 425 The ‘forwarder’ then passes the book on to the ‘finisher’, whose duty it is to add the required lettering and ornament. 1884Standard 14 Apr. 3/7 A strike..has commenced among the ‘lasters and finishers’ of the boot trade.
b. finisher of the law: jocularly, the hangman, executioner.
1708Motteux Rabelais v. Prol. (1737) 57 The Finisher of the Law. 1734Grub St. Jrnl. 2 May 1/1, I imagine..that in point of order..the finisher of the law ought to draw up the conclusion. 1833Fraser's Mag. VIII. 30 Thistlewood was suspended by the finisher of the law. 1835Tait's Mag. II. 168 It [the Newspaper Press] is the grand inquistor—the expositor—the flagellator—the finisher!
c. colloq. Something that finishes, discomfits, or ‘does for’ any one; ‘a settler’. In Pugilism, one who gives a blow that ends a fight; the blow so given.
1771C. Burney Pres. State Mus. France & Italy I. 27 But the last chorus was a finisher with a vengeance! it surpassed, in clamour, all the noises I had ever heard in my life. 1817Sporting Mag. L. 54 As a finisher, there is a great analogy between Randall and the late Dutch Sam. 1827Ibid. XX. 60 He gave him..four or five such finishers, as [etc.]. 1832Marryat N. Forster xliv, This conversazione was a finisher to Dr. Feasible. 1876Besant & Rice Gold. Butterfly III. 106 When I saw her marriage..I thought it was a finisher. |