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▪ I. smoother|ˈsmuːðə(r)|
[f. smooth v.]
†1. One who uses smooth or flattering language; a flatterer. Obs.
1611Cotgr., Blandisseur, a blandisher,..smoother, flattering sycophant, or claw-backe. [a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. iii. 38 My Claw backs, my Smoothers, my Parasites.]
2. One who or that which smooths in some respect; a refiner, mollifier, pacifier, etc. Also with down.
Freq. in newspaper use at the turn of the century, as in quot. 1902.
1611Cotgr., Polisseur, a polisher..; sleeker, smoother. 1630S. Lennard tr. Charron's Wisd. (1670) 473 [Honesty] preserveth the Magistrate free from..bribes, which is the plague, and smoother of truth. 1724Swift Drapier's Lett. Wks. 1755 V. ii. 71 A seasonable report of some invasion..; which is a great smoother of rubs in publick proceedings. 1767Percy Anc. Eng. Minstrels in Reliq. (ed. 2) I. p. xx, A word which denotes ‘Smoothers and Polishers of language’. 1872Black Adv. Phaeton xix. 265 A sunset is a wonderful smoother-down of these artificial features in a landscape. 1902Westm. Gaz. 2 July 2/2 Last March Mr. Lehmann..was very angry with the ‘smoothers’, as he was pleased to call the peacemakers in the Liberal Party.
b. A worker employed in smoothing linen; a calenderer or ironer.
1776Adam Smith W.N. i. i. (1869) I. 7 The bleachers and smoothers of the linen. 1898Daily News 12 July 6/6 Maggie Atkinson, a smoother in Castlereagh Laundry.
3. An implement, tool, or machine for smoothing (see quots.).
1688Holme Armoury iii. 352/1 The third..is termed a Smoother, with which all their Leather is slickened, as they call it. 1738Chambers Cycl. s.v. Bookbinding, The book, being put in the press,..is scraped with a knife called a scraper; and after that with another called a smoother. 1854A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss., Smoother, a smoothing iron. 1885Trans. Lanc. & Chesh. Antiq. Soc. III. 256 These [glass] mullers or smoothers were in use for centuries. 1890W. J. Gordon Foundry 154 They [sc. pieces of wood] then pass on to the ‘smoother’, a fixed knife, against which they are driven.
▪ II. smoother
obs. form of smother n. and v. |