scarifiern.
/ˈskarɪfʌɪə/ 1. One who or something which scarifies. literal and figurative.
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > surgeon > [noun]
chirurgeon1297
surgeonc1330
surgera1400
surgeonrer1483
surgeoner1526
chirurge1535
scarifier1566
scissor man1593
operator1598
man-mendera1625
men-mendera1625
flesh-tailor1633
nim-gimmer1699
sawbones1837
lint-scraper1860
knife-man1961
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > [noun] > severe > instance of
cockshy1822
smasher1828
slasher1849
scarifier1855
slating1870
slate1887
savaging1905
excoriation1924
caning1933
pasting1974
handbagging1987
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > [noun] > critic > severe
untrusser1600
mammothrept1617
Aristarch1621
scarificator1748
scourge1756
tomahawker1795
monsterer1840
scarifier1862
scourger1881
1566 J. Securis Detection sig. Dijv Playster makers, clyster geuers, scarifiers, letters out of bloud, &c.
1683 W. Salmon Doron Medicum i. 79 Cicatrizers, or ‘Scarrifyers’.
1855 C. Dickens Let. 30 Sept. (1993) VII. 711 I have almost finished No. 3, in which I have relieved my indignant soul with a scarifier.
1862 W. M. Thackeray Adventures of Philip I. xvi. 307 There is an air of fashion in everything which Digges writes,..which makes me pretty certain that D. was my scarifier.
2. = scarificator n. 1.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [noun] > knife, lancet, or scalpel > for making several simultaneous incisions
scarificator1611
scarifier1611
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Sacrificateur, a Sacrificator, or Sacrifier; an Instrument wherein there are 18 sharpe wheeles [etc.].
3. Agriculture. An implement for loosening the soil.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > scarifier
scarificator1776
scarifier1794
rooter1810
hash1821
twin1847
rototiller1923
Rotavator1936
1794 J. Billingsley Gen. View Agric. Somerset 163 His [Rev. J. Cooke's] instruments called the scuffler, and scarifier, are the best contrivances I ever beheld,..for the pulverization of the soil.
1880 J. W. Hill Illustr. Guide Agric. Implem. 472 Improved four-wheel wrought iron lever Scarifiers.
4. Road-making. A machine used for breaking up a road. Cf. scarify v.1 3b.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > earth-moving and excavating equipment > [noun] > road-breaker
scarifier1892
road breaker1967
1892 Daily News 21 Oct. 5/5 Our new acquaintance ‘the scarifier’, whose operations when the roadway of the Thames Embankment is remaking attract so much attention.
1901 Athenæum 1 June 697/2 Scarifiers..appear to have been first introduced in England in 1884; and these machines form very valuable adjuncts to steam rolling.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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