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单词 clearer
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clearern.

Brit. /ˈklɪərə/, U.S. /ˈklɪrər/
Etymology: < clear v. + -er suffix1.
1.
a. One who or that which clears (in various senses of the verb).
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > [noun] > one who or that which
clearer1599
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > [noun] > one who explains
expositora1340
expounitourc1380
undoer1382
expoundera1425
reader1440
declarera1527
looser1528
explainer1579
exponer1588
illustrator1598
clearer1599
explicator1611
unfolder1611
representer1642
dilucidator1689
unravellera1704
elucidator1715
exponent1812
explanator1858
transfuser1889
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > [noun] > clearing land > one who clears land
stubber1481
stumper1827
clearer1829
1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered Concl. 46 Desire not to bee a cleerer of S. Peter rather then his hearer.
1630 J. Taylor Praise Cleane Linnen Ded., in Wks. Cleanser, Clearer and Reformer of deformed and polluted Linnen.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 239. ¶11 Gold is a wonderful Clearer of the Understanding: It dissipates every Doubt and Scruple in an Instant.
1769 Lloyd's Evening Post 27–30 Oct. 410/3 Milk of Roses..the most friendly Preserver and Clearer of the Skin.
1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer II. iii. 79 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 n. at in-clearing n. Derivatives.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > one conducting banking business > manager, director, or proprietor of bank > types of banker
merchant banker1652
private banker1711
actuary1816
corporate banker1841
investment banker1880
clearer1883
clearing-banker1885
bankster1931
1883 Bankers' Mag. XLIII. 863 The men who transact the clearing business for the various banks are called ‘the clearers’.
1892 Chambers's Jrnl. 613/2 The clearer we will say represents the London and County Banking Company.
1966 Punch 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.
a. Technology
(a) Salt-making. A tank or reservoir used in condensing salt from brine.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > salt manufacture > [noun] > equipment
pail1481
walling-lead1611
walma1661
Neptune1662
loot1669
ship1669
clearerc1682
cribc1682
barrow1686
hovel1686
leach-trough1686
salt-pan1708
sun pond1708
sun pan1724
scrape-pan1746
taplin1748
drab1753
room1809
thorn house1853
thorn-wall1853
fore-heater1880
pike1884
trunk1885
c1682 J. Collins Salt & Fishery 51 The Brine is..conveyed into large Wooden Vessels..called Clearers.
1863 H. J. Slack in Intellectual Observer 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.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [noun] > combing > machine > roller or cylinder > for stripping material from carding cylinder
ring doffer1855
clearer1875
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 872 The mechanism within the clearer..by which the brushes are caused to travel is simple and solid.
1879 J. Robertson Cotton-spinning in Cassell's Techn. Educator 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.
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1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 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.
b. plural. Spectacles that clear the vision.
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1921 Public Opinion 23 Dec. 627/3 When their time comes to wear ‘clearers’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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