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arrester|əˈrɛstə(r)|
[f. arrest v. + -er1.]
1. a. He who or that which arrests, stops, or checks. b. He who arrests by legal authority.
1440Promp. Parv., A-rester, or a-tacher, or a catcherel, or a catchepolle. 1628Earle Microcosm. lxxv. 155 Satan..is at most but an Arrester, and Hell a dungeon. 1879Prescott Sp. Telephone 28 A lightning arrester is provided in each box for the protection of the apparatus. 1880Muirhead Gaius iv. §21 He was carried home by the arrester and put in chains.
c. (Also arrestor.) A device in chimneys, etc., as an electrical precipitator, for preventing smoke or fire; also spark-arrester. Cf. also lightning n. 3 e.
1838,1879[see spark n.1 7]. 1881Times 17 Feb. 11/4 The alleged negligence of the defendants in having a defective spark arrester on the engine. 1922W. Schlich Man. Forestry (ed. 4) I. 190 Measures necessary to prevent forest fires must be taken, such as..the provision of efficient spark arresters. 1950Hansard Commons CCCCLXXVIII. 271/1 The British Electricity Authority are in process of..installing what are known as [smoke] arresters.
d. A contrivance for bringing to rest aircraft alighting on an aircraft carrier; usu. attrib., as arrester gear, arrester hook, arrester wire. See also arresting ppl. a. b.
1926Flight XVIII. 696/2 It is in connection with deck landing that the arrester gear is most likely to be of service. 1927V. W. Pagé Mod. Aircraft (1928) xvii. 714 (heading) Catapults and Airplane Arresters. 1937Aeroplane 9 June 691/2 About the same time our Fleet Air Arm gave up arrester-wires and took to trusting to wheel-brakes on bare decks. 1940Flight 15 Feb. 147/1 A deck arrester hook is fitted. 1954P. K. Kemp Fleet Air Arm vii. 92 A more satisfactory type of arrester gear was eventually fitted [‘Courageous’ and ‘Glorious’] consisting of transverse wires on the after part of the deck which were picked up by a trailing hook on the aircraft.
2. Sc. Law. One who under legal authority arrests a debt or property in the hands of another. (In this sense now more formally spelt arrestor.)
1754Erskine Princ. Sc. Law (1809) 358 Where a poinding was forcibly stopped by the possessor of the goods, on pretence that they had been already arrested in his hands by another, it was considered as completed in a question with the prior arrester. 1847(See arrestee.) |