stirrern.

Brit.

/ˈstəːrə/, U.S.

/ˈstərər/

Forms: see stir v. Also 1600s stirrier (sense 3b).

Etymology: < stir v. + -er suffix¹.

One who or something which stirs, in various senses.

a. One who or something which excites or provokes something, as strife, passion, etc., or incites a person to something; an inciter, instigator; †a promoter (obsolete); †an exhorter (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > one who incites or instigates

prickera1382

stirrerc1384

enticerc1386

exciter1387

risera1398

solicitor1412

erterc1440

prompter1440

stirrer?1533

motionerc1535

author1546

onsetter1549

stinger1552

setter-on1560

incentor1570

incensora1575

mover1578

whetter1579

out-hounder1596

hounder1597

egger on1598

inciter1598

instigator1598

urger1598

motive1600

fomenter1607

inflamer1609

fetcher in?1611

provokera1616

putter-ona1616

monitor1616

spurrer1632

outputter1639

poddera1640

commoter1646

impulsor1653

shaker and mover1874

agent provocateur1888

impeller1889

sooler1935

spark plug1941

the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > that which incites or instigates

prickleOE

pritchOE

alighting1340

brodc1375

bellowsc1386

pricka1387

motivec1390

prompting1402

preparativec1450

stirmentc1460

incentive?a1475

fomenta1500

farda1522

instigation1526

pointing1533

swinge1548

spur1551

whetstone1551

goad1567

promptitude1578

alarm1587

inducement1593

solicitor1594

incitement1596

inflammation1597

instance1597

excitement1604

moving spirit1604

heart-blood1606

inflamer1609

rouser1611

stimulator1614

motioner1616

incensivea1618

incitative1620

incitation1622

whettera1625

impulsivea1628

excitation1628

incendiary1628

dispositive1629

fomentationa1631

switch1630

stirrer1632

irritament1634

provocative1638

impetus1641

driving force1642

driving power1642

engagement1642

firer1653

propellant1654

fomentary1657

impulse1660

urgency1664

impeller1686

fillip1699

shove1724

incitive1736

stimulative1747

bonus1787

stimulus1791

impellent1793

stimulant1794

propulsion1800

instigant1833

propulsive1834

motive power1836

evoker1845

motivity1857

afflatus1865

flip1881

urge1882

agent provocateur1888

will to power1896

a shot in the arm1922

motivator1929

driver1971

co-driver1993

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Macc. iv. 1 Symont..spake yuel of Onye, as..he hadde be stirer of yuels [L. incentor malorum].

1399 Rolls of Parl. III. 451/2 The man..sayd, that he was noght controevour, ne fyrst doer, no styrer of the Bille.

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 324 Bischopis and abbotis (whiche schulden be grete sterers to the lay partie into deedis of pitee).

1455 Rolls of Parl. V. 282/1 Thaire Assistours, Helpours, Sturrers, Confortours, and Counseillours aforesaid.

1543 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 170 Itt appeared the Mayor to have ben a great sturrer of this garboyle.

1545 Primer Kynges Maiestie (STC 16034) sig. C.iii^v Christ the styrer of the hert.

1599 F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) 74 This woorde ‘Minoresse’ sholde bee ‘Moueresse’, signyfyinge ‘a mover or styrrer to debate’.

1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xiv. ix. 21 The principall stirrers of those tumults and seditions.

1632 S. Marmion Hollands Leaguer ii. ii. D 4 With Musicke, Songs, and dancing, such as are The stirrers of hot appetites.

1635 H. Sydenham Serm. (1637) 74 This is..the prime wheele and stirrer of all our turbulent motions.

1695 J. Locke Reasonableness Christianity (1696) 178 A stirrer of Sedition against the Publick Peace.

1817 Ld. Byron Manfred i. i. 101 I am the Rider of the Wind, The Stirrer of the storm.

1849 G. P. R. James Woodman II. iv. 71 This Morton is..the stirrer of every trouble in the realm.

1876 W. Morris Story of Sigurd iv. 378 No stirrer nor stayer of strife.

1890 Illustr. London News 6 Sept. 298/3 You a stirrer of passions—you a minstrel!

b. Often with up: cf. stir v. Phrasal verbs.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > one who incites or instigates

prickera1382

stirrerc1384

enticerc1386

exciter1387

risera1398

solicitor1412

erterc1440

prompter1440

stirrer?1533

motionerc1535

author1546

onsetter1549

stinger1552

setter-on1560

incentor1570

incensora1575

mover1578

whetter1579

out-hounder1596

hounder1597

egger on1598

inciter1598

instigator1598

urger1598

motive1600

fomenter1607

inflamer1609

fetcher in?1611

provokera1616

putter-ona1616

monitor1616

spurrer1632

outputter1639

poddera1640

commoter1646

impulsor1653

shaker and mover1874

agent provocateur1888

impeller1889

sooler1935

spark plug1941

?1533 W. Tyndale Expos. Mathew v. f. xxij Cursed be..sterers [1573 stirrers] vp of princes to batayle and warre.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1439/2 He was a styrrer vp of sedition and commotion.

1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 357 He was author, and steiryr vp of the first president of Orknay.

1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 57 The chiefe stirrer vp of the King vnto this war, was one Gerbert.

1605 A. Warren Poore Mans Passions E 2 b Sedition-sowers, stirrers vp of strife.

1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper i. 37 Maximinus, the stirrer up of the sixt Persecution.

a1732 F. Atterbury Serm. Several Occas. (1734) I. 222 There is scarce any Truth so bright and clear, but that an Industrious Stirrer up of Doubts may do somewhat towards clouding and darkning it.

1800 S. T. Coleridge tr. F. Schiller Piccolomini i. xii. 66 That long-practised stirrer-up Of insurrection.

1908 Academy 6 June 853/2 Goethe was undoubtedly..a tireless stirrer-up of ideas.

†c. One who makes a commotion, or raises a tumult; an agitator. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > sedition > [noun] > seditious person

sower1380

kindler?c1450

stirrerc1450

subvertera1500

subverser1514

subvertor?1532

commotioner1549

provocator1559

seditioner1562

seedsman1587

tumulter1589

turmoiler1591

seditionary1607

seditiary1628

incendiary1631

patriot1644

embroiler1668

agitator1681

seditionist1786

agent provocateur1831

disquietist1834

insurrectionist1845

provocateur1855

galley-growler1867

c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (1893) iii. xxviii. 97 Kepe þou þiself in gode pees, and lete þe stirer stire [L. dimitte agitantem agitare] as muche as he wol.

1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iii. ix. sig. Nn.v/1 These fellowes are seditious stirrers.

1610 G. Carleton Iurisdict. 125 These Pharises, he describeth to be seditious and intollerable stirrers in States.

1612 G. Paule Life Whitgift 48 The afore-said stirrers, and seditious attempts of sundry persons in this our Archbishops time.

a1637 B. Jonson Under-woods lxx. 30 in Wks. (1640) III What did this Stirrer, but die late?

a1660 Aphorismical Discov. in J. T. Gilbert Contemp. Hist. Ireland (1879) I. 101 This good man will not trust any bodie..but those religions that are inative styrers of the present and other faction.

d. One who stirs up trouble or discontent; an agitator, a trouble-maker. colloquial (chiefly Australian).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > [noun] > cause of > one causing

stroublerc1460

molester1569

discomfiter1807

terror1876

villain1895

sidewinder1906

trouble-maker1923

stirrer1963

1963 T. Morris & P. Morris Pentonville xi. 247 Other prisoners described him as a stirrer rather than a leader in that he got others to do the dirty work for him.

1970 Sunday Truth (Brisbane) 28 June 4/3 He was no stirrer. He came quietly to Brisbane made the scene for six months or so then quietly drifted back a few weeks ago to his favorite haunts around Kings Cross.

1973 C. Mason Hostage vii. 104 ‘You're a born boat-rocker.’ ‘D'you think so? A stirrer, they'd call it at home.’

1977 Sounds 9 July 15/2 He's an absolute stirrer with very little concept of what our job is.

1982 Observer 13 June 16/1 Jessica Mitford is what Australians call a stirrer, meaning a person with a talent for causing trouble.

2. In physical sense:

a. An instrument or appliance for stirring a liquid or the like.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > action or fact of mixing > by stirring > that which

stirrerc1450

c1450 Two Cookery Bks. ii. 107 Sterre it well with ij sturrers.

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique v. xxiii. 725 Leauing the same for the space of an hower to drinke in this water: afterward they put the meale aside with their stirrers.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xx. 247/1 The Third, is called a Padle or Mundle..; some call it a sturer; which is to stire vp the Tallow and turn it about in the pan whilest it is in melting.

1803 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 93 122 The whole being well melted, was stirred with a large earthen stirrer.

1813 T. Rudge Gen. View Agric. Glouc. 222 The stirrer, reever, and shovel used in the process [of cider making].

1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. vi. 172 Besides these vessels, stirrers are frequently required in the progress of these operations. They should be made of solid glass rod.

1845 G. Dodd Brit. Manuf. 5th Ser. 67 (Vinegar.) The mash-tuns..are circular vessels with a central ‘stirrer’ or instrument for keeping in constant agitation the ingredients which may be in the tuns.

1852 C. Morfit Art of Tanning, Currying, & Leather-dressing (1853) 163 To make a fresh vat, quicklime is thrown in, covered with water, and agitated with a stirrer.

1856 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) II. at Plough The stirrer, or acting tine, has a chisel-edge with a sloping front, down the middle of which is a vertical tine.

1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 110/1 Model Steam Jam Boiling Pan, with Revolving Stirrer in action.

b. One who troubles (a stream).

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > [noun] > agitated movement > cause of

stirrer1851

1851 R. C. Trench Legend Alhambra in Poems 36 How, rising from that watery floor, A Moorish maiden..stands before The stirrer of the stream.

a. One who moves about; esp. in early stirrer, one who is up early.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > doing > [noun] > one who acts or does > one who is active or stirring about

stirrer1538

the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > bed related to sleep or rest > [noun] > one who gets up or rises > at a certain time

larka1500

stirrer1538

early riser1571

early bird1830

1538 T. Elyot Dict. Ambulator, a walker or styrer.

a1560 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Æneid viii. Z 1 Nor morning styrer lesse, Æneas then abroad was stalkt.

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iii. ii. 2 An early stirrer, by the Roode.

1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster West-ward Hoe ii. i. sig. B4 I had not thought..you had bin such an early stirrer.

a1625 J. Fletcher Chances i. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Aaa^v/2 And longer to expect my friend may pull me Into suspition of too late a stirrer, Which all good Governments are jealous of.

1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. III. 131 The Prince I speake of, is a stirrer, and makes no stay any where.

1834 S. T. Coleridge Alice du Clos in Poet. Wks. II. 62 Two stirrers only met my eyes, Fair Alice, and one more.

1857 C. Dickens Little Dorrit ii. xxv. 536 They both looked up at the sunny morning sky, into which..the breath and voices of a few early stirrers were peacefully rising.

b. A person or animal that moves briskly; one who bestirs himself, an active person. †Of a horse: see stirring n. 3b, stirring adj. 2b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun] > briskness or activeness > person

trotter1555

stirrer1570

verb1730

shinner1838

staver1860

heller1895

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [noun] > swift horse

courserc1300

stirring horse1477

runnera1500

stirrer1570

spanker1814

ganger1817

ginger1825

clipper1836

traveller1889

speeler1893

pelter1899

1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 27^v As huswiues kepe home and be stirrers about, so speedeth their winninges.

?1575 T. Blundeville Newe Bk. Arte Ryding ii. i. D vj If your horse be nimble..you maye make him a sterer, by teachinge him to bounde aloft, and to yarke withall: to galloppe [etc.].

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Reposer Qui va, il leche; qui repose, il seiche: Prov. The stirrer thriues, the lazie house-Doue pines.

1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman i. ii. 6 Instead of a Stirrier or Horse for mannage, you have bred him fit for nought.

1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 58 For Hawkes, I never saw but two, and those the merriest stirrers that ever I saw flye.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	stirrer
释义	stirrern. Brit. /ˈstəːrə/, U.S. /ˈstərər/ Forms: see stir v. Also 1600s stirrier (sense 3b). Etymology: < stir v. + -er suffix¹. One who or something which stirs, in various senses. 1. a. One who or something which excites or provokes something, as strife, passion, etc., or incites a person to something; an inciter, instigator; †a promoter (obsolete); †an exhorter (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > one who incites or instigates prickera1382 stirrerc1384 enticerc1386 exciter1387 risera1398 solicitor1412 erterc1440 prompter1440 stirrer?1533 motionerc1535 author1546 onsetter1549 stinger1552 setter-on1560 incentor1570 incensora1575 mover1578 whetter1579 out-hounder1596 hounder1597 egger on1598 inciter1598 instigator1598 urger1598 motive1600 fomenter1607 inflamer1609 fetcher in?1611 provokera1616 putter-ona1616 monitor1616 spurrer1632 outputter1639 poddera1640 commoter1646 impulsor1653 shaker and mover1874 agent provocateur1888 impeller1889 sooler1935 spark plug1941 the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > that which incites or instigates prickleOE pritchOE alighting1340 brodc1375 bellowsc1386 pricka1387 motivec1390 prompting1402 preparativec1450 stirmentc1460 incentive?a1475 fomenta1500 farda1522 instigation1526 pointing1533 swinge1548 spur1551 whetstone1551 goad1567 promptitude1578 alarm1587 inducement1593 solicitor1594 incitement1596 inflammation1597 instance1597 excitement1604 moving spirit1604 heart-blood1606 inflamer1609 rouser1611 stimulator1614 motioner1616 incensivea1618 incitative1620 incitation1622 whettera1625 impulsivea1628 excitation1628 incendiary1628 dispositive1629 fomentationa1631 switch1630 stirrer1632 irritament1634 provocative1638 impetus1641 driving force1642 driving power1642 engagement1642 firer1653 propellant1654 fomentary1657 impulse1660 urgency1664 impeller1686 fillip1699 shove1724 incitive1736 stimulative1747 bonus1787 stimulus1791 impellent1793 stimulant1794 propulsion1800 instigant1833 propulsive1834 motive power1836 evoker1845 motivity1857 afflatus1865 flip1881 urge1882 agent provocateur1888 will to power1896 a shot in the arm1922 motivator1929 driver1971 co-driver1993 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Macc. iv. 1 Symont..spake yuel of Onye, as..he hadde be stirer of yuels [L. incentor malorum]. 1399 Rolls of Parl. III. 451/2 The man..sayd, that he was noght controevour, ne fyrst doer, no styrer of the Bille. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 324 Bischopis and abbotis (whiche schulden be grete sterers to the lay partie into deedis of pitee). 1455 Rolls of Parl. V. 282/1 Thaire Assistours, Helpours, Sturrers, Confortours, and Counseillours aforesaid. 1543 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 170 Itt appeared the Mayor to have ben a great sturrer of this garboyle. 1545 Primer Kynges Maiestie (STC 16034) sig. C.iii^v Christ the styrer of the hert. 1599 F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) 74 This woorde ‘Minoresse’ sholde bee ‘Moueresse’, signyfyinge ‘a mover or styrrer to debate’. 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xiv. ix. 21 The principall stirrers of those tumults and seditions. 1632 S. Marmion Hollands Leaguer ii. ii. D 4 With Musicke, Songs, and dancing, such as are The stirrers of hot appetites. 1635 H. Sydenham Serm. (1637) 74 This is..the prime wheele and stirrer of all our turbulent motions. 1695 J. Locke Reasonableness Christianity (1696) 178 A stirrer of Sedition against the Publick Peace. 1817 Ld. Byron Manfred i. i. 101 I am the Rider of the Wind, The Stirrer of the storm. 1849 G. P. R. James Woodman II. iv. 71 This Morton is..the stirrer of every trouble in the realm. 1876 W. Morris Story of Sigurd iv. 378 No stirrer nor stayer of strife. 1890 Illustr. London News 6 Sept. 298/3 You a stirrer of passions—you a minstrel! b. Often with up: cf. stir v. Phrasal verbs. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > one who incites or instigates prickera1382 stirrerc1384 enticerc1386 exciter1387 risera1398 solicitor1412 erterc1440 prompter1440 stirrer?1533 motionerc1535 author1546 onsetter1549 stinger1552 setter-on1560 incentor1570 incensora1575 mover1578 whetter1579 out-hounder1596 hounder1597 egger on1598 inciter1598 instigator1598 urger1598 motive1600 fomenter1607 inflamer1609 fetcher in?1611 provokera1616 putter-ona1616 monitor1616 spurrer1632 outputter1639 poddera1640 commoter1646 impulsor1653 shaker and mover1874 agent provocateur1888 impeller1889 sooler1935 spark plug1941 ?1533 W. Tyndale Expos. Mathew v. f. xxij Cursed be..sterers [1573 stirrers] vp of princes to batayle and warre. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1439/2 He was a styrrer vp of sedition and commotion. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 357 He was author, and steiryr vp of the first president of Orknay. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 57 The chiefe stirrer vp of the King vnto this war, was one Gerbert. 1605 A. Warren Poore Mans Passions E 2 b Sedition-sowers, stirrers vp of strife. 1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper i. 37 Maximinus, the stirrer up of the sixt Persecution. a1732 F. Atterbury Serm. Several Occas. (1734) I. 222 There is scarce any Truth so bright and clear, but that an Industrious Stirrer up of Doubts may do somewhat towards clouding and darkning it. 1800 S. T. Coleridge tr. F. Schiller Piccolomini i. xii. 66 That long-practised stirrer-up Of insurrection. 1908 Academy 6 June 853/2 Goethe was undoubtedly..a tireless stirrer-up of ideas. †c. One who makes a commotion, or raises a tumult; an agitator. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > sedition > [noun] > seditious person sower1380 kindler?c1450 stirrerc1450 subvertera1500 subverser1514 subvertor?1532 commotioner1549 provocator1559 seditioner1562 seedsman1587 tumulter1589 turmoiler1591 seditionary1607 seditiary1628 incendiary1631 patriot1644 embroiler1668 agitator1681 seditionist1786 agent provocateur1831 disquietist1834 insurrectionist1845 provocateur1855 galley-growler1867 c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (1893) iii. xxviii. 97 Kepe þou þiself in gode pees, and lete þe stirer stire [L. dimitte agitantem agitare] as muche as he wol. 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iii. ix. sig. Nn.v/1 These fellowes are seditious stirrers. 1610 G. Carleton Iurisdict. 125 These Pharises, he describeth to be seditious and intollerable stirrers in States. 1612 G. Paule Life Whitgift 48 The afore-said stirrers, and seditious attempts of sundry persons in this our Archbishops time. a1637 B. Jonson Under-woods lxx. 30 in Wks. (1640) III What did this Stirrer, but die late? a1660 Aphorismical Discov. in J. T. Gilbert Contemp. Hist. Ireland (1879) I. 101 This good man will not trust any bodie..but those religions that are inative styrers of the present and other faction. d. One who stirs up trouble or discontent; an agitator, a trouble-maker. colloquial (chiefly Australian). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > [noun] > cause of > one causing stroublerc1460 molester1569 discomfiter1807 terror1876 villain1895 sidewinder1906 trouble-maker1923 stirrer1963 1963 T. Morris & P. Morris Pentonville xi. 247 Other prisoners described him as a stirrer rather than a leader in that he got others to do the dirty work for him. 1970 Sunday Truth (Brisbane) 28 June 4/3 He was no stirrer. He came quietly to Brisbane made the scene for six months or so then quietly drifted back a few weeks ago to his favorite haunts around Kings Cross. 1973 C. Mason Hostage vii. 104 ‘You're a born boat-rocker.’ ‘D'you think so? A stirrer, they'd call it at home.’ 1977 Sounds 9 July 15/2 He's an absolute stirrer with very little concept of what our job is. 1982 Observer 13 June 16/1 Jessica Mitford is what Australians call a stirrer, meaning a person with a talent for causing trouble. 2. In physical sense: a. An instrument or appliance for stirring a liquid or the like. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > action or fact of mixing > by stirring > that which stirrerc1450 c1450 Two Cookery Bks. ii. 107 Sterre it well with ij sturrers. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique v. xxiii. 725 Leauing the same for the space of an hower to drinke in this water: afterward they put the meale aside with their stirrers. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xx. 247/1 The Third, is called a Padle or Mundle..; some call it a sturer; which is to stire vp the Tallow and turn it about in the pan whilest it is in melting. 1803 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 93 122 The whole being well melted, was stirred with a large earthen stirrer. 1813 T. Rudge Gen. View Agric. Glouc. 222 The stirrer, reever, and shovel used in the process [of cider making]. 1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. vi. 172 Besides these vessels, stirrers are frequently required in the progress of these operations. They should be made of solid glass rod. 1845 G. Dodd Brit. Manuf. 5th Ser. 67 (Vinegar.) The mash-tuns..are circular vessels with a central ‘stirrer’ or instrument for keeping in constant agitation the ingredients which may be in the tuns. 1852 C. Morfit Art of Tanning, Currying, & Leather-dressing (1853) 163 To make a fresh vat, quicklime is thrown in, covered with water, and agitated with a stirrer. 1856 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) II. at Plough The stirrer, or acting tine, has a chisel-edge with a sloping front, down the middle of which is a vertical tine. 1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 110/1 Model Steam Jam Boiling Pan, with Revolving Stirrer in action. b. One who troubles (a stream). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > [noun] > agitated movement > cause of stirrer1851 1851 R. C. Trench Legend Alhambra in Poems 36 How, rising from that watery floor, A Moorish maiden..stands before The stirrer of the stream. 3. a. One who moves about; esp. in early stirrer, one who is up early. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > [noun] > one who acts or does > one who is active or stirring about stirrer1538 the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > bed related to sleep or rest > [noun] > one who gets up or rises > at a certain time larka1500 stirrer1538 early riser1571 early bird1830 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Ambulator, a walker or styrer. a1560 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Æneid viii. Z 1 Nor morning styrer lesse, Æneas then abroad was stalkt. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iii. ii. 2 An early stirrer, by the Roode. View more context for this quotation 1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster West-ward Hoe ii. i. sig. B4 I had not thought..you had bin such an early stirrer. a1625 J. Fletcher Chances i. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Aaa^v/2 And longer to expect my friend may pull me Into suspition of too late a stirrer, Which all good Governments are jealous of. 1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. III. 131 The Prince I speake of, is a stirrer, and makes no stay any where. 1834 S. T. Coleridge Alice du Clos in Poet. Wks. II. 62 Two stirrers only met my eyes, Fair Alice, and one more. 1857 C. Dickens Little Dorrit ii. xxv. 536 They both looked up at the sunny morning sky, into which..the breath and voices of a few early stirrers were peacefully rising. b. A person or animal that moves briskly; one who bestirs himself, an active person. †Of a horse: see stirring n. 3b, stirring adj. 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun] > briskness or activeness > person trotter1555 stirrer1570 verb1730 shinner1838 staver1860 heller1895 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [noun] > swift horse courserc1300 stirring horse1477 runnera1500 stirrer1570 spanker1814 ganger1817 ginger1825 clipper1836 traveller1889 speeler1893 pelter1899 1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 27^v As huswiues kepe home and be stirrers about, so speedeth their winninges. ?1575 T. Blundeville Newe Bk. Arte Ryding ii. i. D vj If your horse be nimble..you maye make him a sterer, by teachinge him to bounde aloft, and to yarke withall: to galloppe [etc.]. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Reposer Qui va, il leche; qui repose, il seiche: Prov. The stirrer thriues, the lazie house-Doue pines. 1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman i. ii. 6 Instead of a Stirrier or Horse for mannage, you have bred him fit for nought. 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 58 For Hawkes, I never saw but two, and those the merriest stirrers that ever I saw flye. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1384
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