stackern.1
/ˈstakə/, U.S. /ˈstækər/ 1. One who builds up a stack or pile.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > stacking or ricking > one who stacks
stacker1757
shocker1786
mowyer1888
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [noun] > composite collectiveness > accumulation > stacking > one who
stacker1757
1757 R. Griffith & E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances II. clxxxiv. 10 I am, at present, sitting in the midst of a large Field of Barley, which I reaped the other Day; and am taking Care of the Binders and Stackers.
1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. 494 The common number of workpeople is five hay-makers to each mower, including tedders, loaders, pitchers, and stackers.
1880 M. Allan-Olney New Virginians I. 180 None of the Virginians working for him were good stackers.
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 234 Stacker, one who stacks coals, etc.
2.
a. (See quot. 1875); more widely, any machine for raising individual items or bulk material and depositing them on a stack or pile; also, a stacker crane.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > machine for stacking hay
field derrick1867
stacker1875
stacking-elevator1890
society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > crane > types of
quay crane1821
balance-crane1824
well crane1836
water crane1849
jenny1861
jib-crane1873
stacker1875
Titan1876
transfer-elevatora1884
whip-crane1883
Goliath1888
jigger1891
wharf crane1893
floating crane1903
tower crane1906
hammer-headed crane1908
portal crane1908
hammer-head crane1910
luffing crane1913
cherry-picker1945
stacker crane1959
monotower1963
Transtainer1964
portainer1966
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Stacker, a machine adapted for delivering straw from the threshing machine on to the stack, or hay from a wagon on to a stack or into a loft.
1887 Sci. Amer. 14 May 314/1 A hay stacker and loader.
1905 Contemp. Rev. July 98 There..the thresher and stacker has its home and works with long surges of droning sound which I love to hear.
1922 G. F. Zimmer Mech. Handling & Storing (ed. 3) xxxviii. 654 A similar stacker is illustrated in Fig. 954; it is composed of a slat conveyor, and is for handling cases.
1950 W. Staniar Plant Engin. Handbk. xx. 1417 A number of different types of portable elevators, stackers, or tiering machines are made with the lifting mechanism either motor or hand operated... Portable stackers are made for the handling of smaller units.
1979 Belt Conveyors for Bulk Materials (Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers Assoc., U.S.) (ed. 2) i. 7 Belt conveyors, with their stackers and reclaimers, have become the only practical means for large-scale stockpiling and reclaiming of such bulk materials as coal, ore, and taconite pellets.
b. A part of a data-processing machine in which punched cards are deposited in a stack after having passed through the machine.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > secondary storage > [noun] > punch card or tape > processing device
reproducer1885
sorter1917
interpreter1936
verifier1940
card reader1946
reader1946
tape reader1947
collator1949
tape reproducer1961
stacker1962
tabulator1970
1962 Gloss. Terms Automatic Data Processing (B.S.I.) 90.
1969 P. B. Jordain Condensed Computer Encycl. 82 A card stacker ensures the correct sequencing of emerging cards.
1971 J. T. Murray Introd. Computing vii. 126 The input hopper provides the cards which are sorted into any of the six available stacker pockets.
Compounds
stacker crane n. a hoist running on a fixed horizontal track for stacking and retrieving pallets or the like.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > crane > types of
quay crane1821
balance-crane1824
well crane1836
water crane1849
jenny1861
jib-crane1873
stacker1875
Titan1876
transfer-elevatora1884
whip-crane1883
Goliath1888
jigger1891
wharf crane1893
floating crane1903
tower crane1906
hammer-headed crane1908
portal crane1908
hammer-head crane1910
luffing crane1913
cherry-picker1945
stacker crane1959
monotower1963
Transtainer1964
portainer1966
1959 W. Staniar Plant Engin. Handbk. (ed. 2) xxviii. 32 The makers of the stacker crane claim that it may be employed for safe stacking of materials to greater heights than with other forms of equipment.
1979 Computers in Shell (Shell Internat. Petroleum Co.) 6 A computer-controlled stacker crane takes the pallet and places it in one of the thousands of pallet spaces in the racks, the location being recorded by the computer.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
stackern.2
/ˈstakə/, U.S. /ˈstækər/ dialect.
1. plural = staggers: see stagger n.1 2.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle, horse, or sheep > [noun] > staggers or gid
turn?1523
sturdiness1552
turn-sick1566
sturdy1570
dazy1577
stavers1597
(to have) the staggers1599
gid1601
giddy1603
turnabout1605
stacker1610
turning-evil1614
megrims1639
blind staggers1784
the goggles1793
dazing1799
stomach-staggers1831
turn-sick1834
turn-side1845
phalaris staggers1946
1610 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 188 For letting the grissell mare blode for the stakers and giving her a drincke, xiiijd.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Stackers, the staggers, a disease in horses, etc.
2. A reeling or tottering movement of the body, = stagger n.1
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > unsteady movement > [noun] > reeling or staggering > a reeling or staggering movement
reel?1572
stagger1600
wintle1786
stacker1870
1870 J. K. Hunter Life Stud. Char. xliv. 271 An attempt to ease the foot produced a stacher.
1877 R. De B. Trotter Galloway Gossip Sixty Years Ago 358 He gied a great stacher and fell spraucheling on the floor.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
stackerv.
/ˈstakə/, U.S. /ˈstækər/ Obsolete exc. dialect.† 2. To stammer, hesitate in speech. Obsolete.† 3. figurative.
1.
a. intransitive. To totter, reel in one's gait, to stagger.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > unsteady movement > move unsteadily [verb (intransitive)] > reel, stagger, or sway unsteadily
stackera1300
welt13..
waggera1382
swaver?a1400
blundc1400
swab14..
swabble14..
gogglec1460
reel1477
galay1489
stagger1530
swag1530
stag1561
wheel1832
swig1833
wavel1896
a1300 Cursor Mundi 24032 I stakerd sua i moght not stand.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 12377 Arthur was stoneyd, stakered, & stynt, But ȝut fel he nought for þat dynt.
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 2687 She rist ȝit vp & stakerith her & ther.
c1400 Song of Roland 730 Then euery of them brest vpon other, that þer stedes stakered right euyn þer.
c1440 York Myst. xxx. 84 For scho may stakir in þe strete But scho stalworthely stande.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms cvi. 27 They stacker like a droncken man.
a1563 J. Bale King Johan (1969) ii. 2032 Of terryble deathe thu wyllt stacker in the plashes.
1597 G. Harvey Trimming T. Nashe in Wks. (1885) III. 57 He eate the poyson, and presently (drunkard-like) stackered vp and downe, reeling backward and forward.
1597 A. Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 289 I stakkerit at the windilstrayis.
1787 R. Burns Death & Dr. Hornbook iii, in Poems (new ed.) 56 I stacher'd whyles, but yet took tent ay To free the ditches.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Stacker, to stagger.
b. transferred.
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1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xxii. 288 When he had shipt himselfe, the vessell that bare him, stackered like a drunken man to and fro.
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the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > speak inarticulately or with a defect [verb (intransitive)] > stammer or speak hesitantly
stammerc1000
wlaffe1025
stotec1325
humc1374
mafflea1387
stut1388
rattlea1398
famble14..
mammera1425
drotec1440
falterc1440
stackerc1440
hem1470
wallowa1475
tattle1481
mant1506
happer1519
trip1526
hobblea1529
hack1553
stagger1565
faffle1570
stutter1570
hem and hawk1588
ha1604
hammer1619
titubate1623
haw1632
fork1652
hacker1652
lispc1680
hesitate1706
balbutiate1731
haffle1790
hotter1828
stutter1831
ah1853
catch1889
c1440 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine v. 1510 Make now noo stakeryng As in this mater.
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Offensator, He that stakereth in redinge, as if he were not perfyte in reding.
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Titubo, To stacker in speking or going, as a man being drunke or sycke.
a. To be insecure or in danger of ruin. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > face danger [verb (intransitive)] > be in danger > be at risk or in a precarious position
stacker1402
periclitate1581
to stand on a rolling stone1581
to lie upon the wager1590
tottera1616
concern1659
to tread on eggs, on delicate ground, on thin icea1734
tremblea1862
to skate over (or on) thin ice1897
to teeter on the brink1937
1402 Polit. Poems (Rolls) II. 40 Every state stakerth unstable in him silfe.
b. To waver, to hesitate mentally in a state of indecision. Obsolete.
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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > be irresolute or vacillate [verb (intransitive)]
haltc825
flecchec1300
waverc1315
flickerc1325
wag1387
swervea1400
floghter1521
stacker1526
to be of (occasionally in) many (also divers) minds1530
wave1532
stagger1533
to hang in the wind1536
to waver as, like, with the wind1548
mammer1554
sway1563
dodge1568
erch1584
suspend1585
float1598
swag1608
hoverc1620
hesitate1623
vacillate1623
fluctuate1634
demur1641
balance1656
to be at shall I, shall I (not)1674
to stand shall I, shall I1674
to go shill-I shall-I1700
to stand at shilly-shally1700
to act, to keep (upon), the volanta1734
whiffle1737
dilly-dally1740
to be in (also of, occasionally on) two minds (also in twenty minds, in (also of) several minds, etc.)1751
oscillate1771
shilly-shally1782
dacker1817
librate1822
humdrum1825
swing1833
(to stand or sit) on or upon the fence1848
to back and fill1854
haver1866
wobble1867
shaffle1873
dicker1879
to be on the weigh-scales1886
waffle1894
to think twice1898
to teeter on the brink1902
dither1908
vagulate1918
pern1920
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Rom. iv. 20 He stackered nott at the promes off God thorowe vnbelefe.
1533 T. More Apologye xxii. 134 b Calanius perceuyng them begyn in the mater somwhat to staker and staye, persuaded them [etc.].
1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Jas. ii. f. xxxiiv He..whiche stackreth not to auenture in hys onely sonne whome he loued so syngularly.
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