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▪ I. sketcher1|ˈskɛtʃə(r)|
[f. sketch v. + -er1.]
1. One who sketches a picture, portrait, etc.
1812Combe Syntax, Picturesque ii. 128 I'll do as other sketchers do—Put any thing into the view. 1831D. E. Williams Sir T. Lawrence I. 234 As a sketcher of likenesses, he disclosed the future power of the President. 1840T. A. Trollope Summer in Brittany I. 70 As perfect a little domestic landscape as a sketcher could desire. 1888W. P. Frith Autobiog. III. v. 137 Creswick, though by nature a lazy fellow, was a pretty constant sketcher.
b. One who writes an outline sketch, or who jots down preliminary memoranda.
1851J. H. Newman Posit. Cath. Eng. 311 Those who write books about a people or a school are hardly more than extempore sketchers; or they paint from memory. 1883Grove's Dict. Mus. III. 526 Others, again—the Sketchers, par excellence—began even their greatest works by noting down a few scraps of Subject, which they afterwards modified, enlarged, and improved.
2. An implement for sketching.
1894Baring-Gould Des. S. France I. 159 With a sketcher of flint,..a primeval man amused himself in delineating..such animals as he pursued in the chase.
▪ II. ˈsketcher2 Sc.
Also 8 skytcher, 9 skatcher.
[f. sketch, Sc. form of skate v.]
A skate.
For the Sc. sketcher, etc., a skater, see Eng. Dial. Dict.
1790A. Wilson Rabby's Mistake Poet. Wks. (1846) 101 Owre the loch's clear frozen face, On skytchers thrang, in airy chase, Flew mony a cheery chiel. 1824Scott St. Ronan's iii, I thought sketchers were aye made of airn. 1865G. Macdonald A. Forbes xxvi, A new strap for my skatcher. |