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overlooker|əʊvəˈlʊkə(r)|
[f. overlook v. + -er1.]
One who overlooks.
1. One who surveys, watches, or inspects from a position of vantage; an observer; a spy.
1483Cath. Angl. 264/1 An Over loker, horuspax,..horoscopus. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. cccciii. 700 Phylip Dartwell, the regarde and ouerloker of Flaunders. 1598in Harington's Nugæ Ant. (ed. Park 1804) I. 242, I know there are overlookers set on you all, so God direct your discretion. 1651Fuller Abel Rediv. (1867) I. 361 He was a careful overlooker and strict observer. 1862Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Hallib. iii. i. (1888) 304 A shaded walk,..very little fear there of overlookers.
2. One whose business it is to overlook or superintend; a superintendent, overseer.
1387–8T. Usk Test. Love i. iii. (Skeat) l. 128 Soche people should haue no maistrie, ne been ourlookers, ouer none of thy seruauntes. 1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 586 The duke of Glouceter, Sir Humfrey, was that daye ouerloker, and stode before the quene bare hedyd. 1576R. Curteys Two Serm. E vj, The holy Ghost hath made you Episcopos, ouerseers, ouerlookers, and watchmen ouer the flock of Christe. 1798Washington Writ. (1893) XIV. 86 The present Overlooker of my Carpenters. 1868Rogers Pol. Econ. ii. (1876) 14 An unnecessary number of overlookers or foremen. 1963Times 25 May 9/7 ‘But t'brig isn't t'world’, a sewing-shop overlooker says over his gill of mild. 1973Guardian 12 Mar. 9/1 She has worked as an overlooker at Mansfield Hosiery for five years. 1974Times 5 Dec. 5/2 A mill in the Preston area [where]..the first Asian overlooker was recently promoted. 1976T. Jeal Until Colours Fade ix. 111 A group of all but naked men, working under an overlooker, raking out white-hot coke. |