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clearer|ˈklɪərə(r)|
[f. clear v. + -er1.]
1. a. One who or that which clears (in various senses of the vb.).
1599Broughton's Lett. 46 Desire not to bee a cleerer of S. Peter rather then his hearer. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Praise Cleane Linnen Ded., Cleanser, Clearer and Reformer of deformed and polluted Linnen. 1711Addison Spect. No. 239 ⁋11 Gold is a wonderful Clearer of the Understanding; it dissipates every Doubt and Scruple in an Instant. 1769Lloyd's Evening Post 27–30 Oct. 410/3 Milk of Roses..the most friendly Preserver and Clearer of the Skin. 1829Marryat F. Mildmay xiii, These Irish people would make good clearers of his land.
b. One who, or a bank which, transacts the business of passing cheques and bills, etc., through a clearing-house; a clearing-banker. Cf. in-clearer.
1883Bankers' Mag. XLIII. 863 The men who transact the clearing business for the various banks are called ‘the clearers’. 1892Chambers's Jrnl. 613/2 The clearer we will say represents the London and County Banking Company. 1966Punch 16 Nov. 746/2 The criteria..used in the past to exempt certain banks (all the clearers, but only some of the merchants) from the accounting requirements of the Companies Act.
2. Techn.
a. Salt-making. A tank or reservoir used in condensing salt from brine.
c1682J. Collins Making Salt in Eng. 51 The Brine is..conveyed into large Wooden Vessels..called Clearers. 1863H. J. Slack in Intell. Observ. IV. 94 The visitors to Lymington..find it [the brine shrimp] abundantly in the tanks or reservoirs, called clearers.
b. Spinning. A revolving roller with wire brushes which strips cotton, wool, etc., off the carding cylinder.
1875Ure Dict. Arts III. 872 The mechanism within the clearer..by which the brushes are caused to travel is simple and solid. 1879J. Robertson Cotton-Spin. in Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 274/1 To prevent them from being choked with cotton, each of them is brushed or cleared by smaller rollers, called clearers.
c. Rope-making.
1794Rigging & Seamanship 54 Clearer, a Tool similar to the hatchell, but with finer teeth, as the hemp is..finished on it for lines and twines, for sail-makers, etc. |