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crusher|ˈkrʌʃə(r)|
[f. crush v. + -er1.]
1. a. One who or that which crushes.
1598Florio, Premitore, a crusher. 1611Cotgr., Escacheur, a squasher; a beater, or crusher of things flat. 1662J. Sparrow tr. Behme's Rem. Wks., Apol. conc. Perfection 8 The Crusher or bruiser of the Serpent. 1859Sala Tw. round Clock (1861) 62 Crushers of walnuts with silver nut-crackers. 1885C. F. Holder Marvels Anim. Life 191 The Port Jackson shark..has crushers instead of teeth.
b. spec. One whose trade is to crush some article for economic purposes.
1794Hull Advertiser 9 Aug. 3/4 The Crushers of Rape⁓seed continue to buy this article very freely. 1841Penny Cycl. XIX. 300/2 Rape..The seed..is then sold to the crushers, who express the oil. 1884Law Rep. 13 Q. Bench Div. 469 Seed crushers and oil refiners.
c. A machine for crushing seed, ore, quartz, etc.
1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 160 For breaking malt, beans, &c. one crusher only is wanted. 1879R. J. Atcherley Boërland 172 Mr. Armfield's crusher was in full work.
2. colloq. Something which overwhelms or overpowers. Cf. stunner.
1840Dickens Old C. Shop l, It's Destiny, and mine's a crusher! 1849Thackeray Pendennis iv, ‘She is a crusher, ain't she now?’ 1884Chr. Commonwealth 6 Nov. 53/5 The decision was a crusher on Dr. Phin.
3. An apparatus for recording the pressure exerted on a gun by a charge of powder; also attrib. as in crusher-gauge, crusher-plug.
1871Standard 19 Jan., A ‘crusher’, or small apparatus exposing a copper disc to the pressure over a given surface of the pent-up gases, was inserted in the rear of the 700-pounder bolts. 1871Noble & Abel in Phil. Trans. CLXV. 140 A slight escape of gas past the crusher-gauge.
4. slang.
a. A policeman.
1835Sessions' Paper Aug. 643 ‘Here are two crushers.’.. I looked out of the window, and saw both the policemen. 1841Punch II. 137 There is not one crusher who is proof against the waistcoat pocket. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 25 ‘The blessed crushers is everywhere’, shouted one.
b. A ship's corporal or policeman; a regulating petty officer. Naval.
1908‘L. Yexley’ Inner Life of Navy ii. 10 Whenever the ‘Assembly’ sounded, the Police (usually called Corporals or ‘Crushers’) would run round the decks cutting..at the boys as they rushed up the ladders. 1909J. R. Ware Passing Eng. 100/2 Crushers, ships' corporals, who are the rank and file of the master-at-arms. 1912‘Aurora’ Jock Scott, Midshipman xiv. 165 One of the ‘crushers’ has a ‘down’ on you. 1943C. S. Forester Ship 85 A crusher is a member of the ship's police. |