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单词 speeder
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speedern.

Brit. /ˈspiːdə/, U.S. /ˈspidər/
Forms: Also Middle English speder, spedar.
Etymology: < speed v.
1. One who speeds, aids, or furthers; a helper or forwarder. Now archaic.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > promotion or help forward > [noun] > one who or that which
fostrild?c1225
nurser1363
speed1377
promoter1384
furtherer1390
speederc1400
upraiserc1440
promotor1517
nurse1526
advancer1540
promover1545
fosterera1586
increasera1625
fartherer1633
uplifter1650
cultivator1663
upbuilder1865
c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 4798 He made him lord and her leder, And prayed god be her speder.
c1440 York Myst. i. 110 To spill vs þu was oure spedar.
?1624 G. Chapman tr. Hymn to Hermes in tr. Crowne Homers Wks. 52 Speeder of Nights spies And guide of all her dreames obscurities.
1859 G. Meredith Ordeal Richard Feverel III. vi. 175 I ain't a speeder of Matrimony, and good's my reason!
1887 W. Morris tr. Homer Odyssey II. xiii. 233 For now are all things ready.., The speeders and gifts of well-wishers.
2. One who prospers or succeeds, esp. in a suit.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > [noun] > one who or that which is successful > one who
up1536
speeder1580
succeeder1836
get-on1867
riot1909
1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 94v Your wooers [will be] good olde Gentlemen before they be speeders.
1592 R. Greene Philomela sig. F He that is a suter in Ieast, maye be a speeder in earnest.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Perdeur The miserable pleader is a miserable speeder; the sparing of a fee is often the spoyle of a cause.
1671 H. M. tr. Erasmus Colloquies 32 Go thy way advocate, thou wilt come back again a speeder.
in extended use.1612 G. Chapman Widdowes Teares i. sig. Bv My former suites haue been all spenders, this shall be a speeder.
3. A device or contrivance for quickening or regulating the speed of machinery; also, a kind of roving-machine used in cotton-manufacture.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > other specific machines > [noun]
reeler1598
driver1659
rubber1747
heading machine1795
bruiser1809
finisher1835
stripper1835
physionotype1836
rotary1836
tetraspaston1842
netting-machine1846
speeder1847
dresser1855
spacer1857
starcher1862
bronzing liquid, machine1865
finishing machine1869
grader1869
brain machine1872
peanut roaster1872
bending machine1874
screw-machine1876
tire-upsetting-machine1877
buncher?1881
flax-breaker1889
oscillator1889
fluoroscope1893
fluorometer1897
mucker1916
spray dryer1921
paver1926
teabagger1940
burster1950
icemaker1953
laminator1958
slipform (concrete) paver1958
extruder1959
Zamboni1965
manipulator1968
wave machine1968
pipelayer1969
walking machine1971
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > other parts > [noun] > parts regulating movement or speed
fly1599
screw1617
fence1678
springboard1772
check-chain1805
speeder1847
1847 Knickerbocker 30 517 A few [girls] tend the ‘warpers’, the ‘spoolers’, and the ‘speeders’.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2261/1 The twist, which is given in the bobbin and fly frame by the rotation of the spindle and flyer, is given in the speeder by an endless belt.
4. One who cycles, motors, etc., at a high rate of speed; a fast car, horse, etc. Also spec. one who exceeds the speed limit in a vehicle.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > [noun] > one who rides in a vehicle > one fond of travelling at speed
speeder1891
speed merchant1913
speed bug1914
speed demon1941
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > [noun] > driver of motor vehicle > fast or reckless
hell driver1699
scorcher1885
automaniac1902
speed merchant1913
speedster1921
thruster1925
cowboy1928
speed hog1928
speeder1974
1891 in Cent. Dict.
1893 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 6 Sept. A certain good-fellowship has been established between the speeders and the city.
1974 R. B. Parker God save Child i. 6 [The police] have to arrest drunks and flag down speeders and break up fights.
5. North American. A small vehicle running on railway tracks used for line maintenance, etc., originally only manually propelled.
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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > inspection or maintenance vehicle
handcar1833
go-devil1893
speeder1905
scooter1917
1905 J. Outram In Heart Canad. Rockies 152 The top of a box car is the choicest of propelling methods, unless one can get a ride on a hand-car or a speeder, with opportunity to slacken speed or stop whenever one desires.
1934 Sun (Baltimore) 6 Aug. 2/1 One hour in advance of the pilot train section men went over the President's route in gasoline ‘speeders’.
1947 A. Saunders Algonquin Story xi. 128 The husband, apparently a section man, had rushed up the tracks on a three-wheeled ‘speeder’ to bring Molly back to help.
1960 J. J. Rowlands Spindrift ii. 107 They had taken him out with pneumonia..fifty miles on a gasoline speeder..at twenty below zero.
1970 R. Paterson & J. Paterson Cranberry Portage xxiii. 152 For days I travelled by locomotive, trolley, speeder, anything moving my way.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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