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▪ I. champer1|ˈtʃæmpə(r)|
[f. champ v. + -er1.]
One who, or a thing which, champs, chews, or mashes. In dial. a kitchen tool for mashing potatoes, etc.
1599Nashe Lent. Stuffe 25 The foure footed rablement of herbagers and grasse champers. 1608Middleton Mad World ii. ii, I keep champers in my house can shew your lordship some pleasure. 1611Cotgr., Mascheur, a chawer, chewer; champer; eater. 1712Steele Spect. No. 431 ⁋3 Some Name for these craving Damsels..Trash-eaters, Oatmeal-chewers, Pipe-champers, Chalk-lickers.
▪ II. ˈchamper2
A variant of chamfer: in both senses.
1817J. Puckle Club §410. 77 The hollows above their [coursers'] brows, their champers, narrils, mouths, necks. 1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. xiii. (1858) 277 Along the edges of their upper beds he struck off a small rude champer.
▪ III. ˈchamper, v.
= To chamfer.
1788Smeaton in Phil. Trans. LXXIX. 5 The back side of the upper end..being champered or bevilled off. |