dispatchern.
/dɪˈspatʃə/ 1. One who or that which dispatches, in various senses: see the verb. spec. (a) North American = train dispatcher n. at train n.2 Compounds 2c; (b) (see quot. 1954).
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the world > life > death > killing > killer > [noun]
baneOE
quelmerOE
quellerOE
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slaughtermana1350
slayerc1380
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dispatcher1549
executioner1597
slaughterer?1611
widowmakera1616
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zapper1969
the world > movement > transference > sending > [noun] > one who or that which
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dispatcher1549
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1549 J. Bale in J. Leland Laboryouse Journey Pref. sig. Biiij Auaryce was the other dyspatcher, whych hath made an ende both of our lybraryes and bokes wythout respecte.
1567 T. Palfreyman Baldwin's Treat. Morall Philos. (new ed.) v. vi. f. 143 To ye godlye, deth is the most happy messenger, & quick dispatcher of al such displesures.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1971/2 (margin) D. Story..the chiefe dispatcher of al Gods Sainctes that suffered in Q. Maries time.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Dataire, the dater, or dispatcher of the Popes Bulls.
1755 N. Magens Ess. Insurances II. 212 Likewise the Dispatcher of Averages.
1878 A. Pinkerton Strikers xviii. 219 The conductor..promptly passed the dreaded word to the dispatcher.
1884 A. Wainwright in Harper's Mag. July 272/2 The dispatcher, as the electrician is technically called, puts his finger upon a fourth key.
1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 31 Aug. 3/2 The despatcher of a telegram.
1931 H. F. Pringle Theodore Roosevelt ii. xii. 441 Orders were telephoned to the chief dispatcher of the Pennsylvania Railroad in New Jersey. A special train was to be made up.
1949 F. Maclean Eastern Approaches ii. viii. 299 The dispatcher beckoned to us and Vivian and I..made fast the static lines to the special hooks on the inside of the fuselage.
1954 X. Fielding Hide & Seek 227 The 'plane's despatcher—the sergeant responsible for launching the personnel and containers out of the body of the machine.
2. slang. (plural) A kind of false dice: see quots.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > die or dice > false or loaded
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dice of vantage?1577
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1798 Sporting Mag. 11 85 How long it was since his conscience had permitted him to use dispatchers; these, he said, were loaded dice.
1894 J. N. Maskelyne ‘Sharps & Flats’ 237 Of unfair dice..there are those whose faces do not bear the correct number of pips, and which are known as ‘dispatchers’.
1894 J. N. Maskelyne ‘Sharps & Flats’ 238 A high dispatcher cannot throw less than two, whilst a low one cannot throw higher than three.
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