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Dyer

Dyer \Dy"er\, n. One whose occupation is to dye cloth and the like.

dyer's rocket, Dyer's weed. Same as Dyer's broom.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dyer

late 14c. (late 13c. as a surname), agent noun from dye (v.).

Wiktionary
dyer

n. One who dyes, especially one who dyes cloth etc. as an occupation.

WordNet
dyer

n. someone whose job is to dye cloth

Gazetteer
Dyer, AR -- U.S. town in Arkansas
Population (2000): 585
Housing Units (2000): 248
Land area (2000): 2.596265 sq. miles (6.724295 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.596265 sq. miles (6.724295 sq. km)
FIPS code: 20200
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 35.494532 N, 94.138541 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Dyer, IN -- U.S. town in Indiana
Population (2000): 13895
Housing Units (2000): 4900
Land area (2000): 5.960298 sq. miles (15.437100 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 5.960298 sq. miles (15.437100 sq. km)
FIPS code: 19270
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 41.500218 N, 87.512161 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 46311
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Dyer, TN -- U.S. city in Tennessee
Population (2000): 2406
Housing Units (2000): 1053
Land area (2000): 2.260723 sq. miles (5.855246 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.260723 sq. miles (5.855246 sq. km)
FIPS code: 22180
Located within: Tennessee (TN), FIPS 47
Location: 36.069267 N, 88.991620 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 38330
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Dyer -- U.S. County in Tennessee
Population (2000): 37279
Housing Units (2000): 16123
Land area (2000): 510.495360 sq. miles (1322.176856 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 15.984283 sq. miles (41.399101 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 526.479643 sq. miles (1363.575957 sq. km)
Located within: Tennessee (TN), FIPS 47
Location: 36.060464 N, 89.358984 W
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Dyer County
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Wikipedia
Dyer

Dyer may refer to:

  • dyer (occupation), a person who is involved in dyeing

Places:

  • Dyer, Arkansas, a town
  • Dyer, Indiana, a town
    • Dyer (Amtrak station)
  • Dyer, Kentucky
  • Dyer, Nevada, a town
  • Dyer, Tennessee, a city
  • Dyer, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
  • Dyer County, Tennessee
  • Dyer Bay, Maine
  • Dyer River, Maine
  • Dyer Plateau, Palmer Land, Antarctica
  • Dyer Point, Ellsworth Land, Antarctica
  • Dyer Island (disambiguation), several islands
  • Dyer Avenue (disambiguation), two streets, one in New York, the other in Hong Kong
  • Camp Dyer, Rhode Island, a temporary camp used during the Spanish–American War
  • Dyer State Wayside, a rest stop in Oregon
  • 78434 Dyer, an asteroid

People:

  • Dyer (surname)
  • Dyer Ball (1796-1866), American missionary and doctor in China
  • Dyer Lum (1839-1893), American anarchist labor activist and poet
  • Dyer Pearl (1857-1930), American businessman

Other uses:

  • USS Dyer (DD-84), a United States Navy destroyer
  • Dyer Observatory, an astronomical observatory in Brentwood, Tennessee, owned and operated by Vanderbilt University
  • Dyer baronets, two baronetcies in the Baronetage of England
  • DYER-TV, a Philippine television station
Dyer (1814 cricketer)

Dyer (first name and dates unknown) was an English first-class cricketer associated with Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) who was active in the 1810s. He is recorded in one match in 1814, totalling 0 runs with a highest score of 0 not out.

Dyer (surname)

Dyer is an English surname with early medieval origins, deriving from the trade of cloth dying.

Notable names include:

  • Ainsworth Dyer
  • Alex Dyer (footballer born 1965), English footballer who played for Blackpool, Charlton Athletic and Oxford United, amongst others
  • Alex Dyer (footballer born 1990), English footballer who plays for Northampton Town
  • Alexander Brydie Dyer
  • Alvin R. Dyer
  • Amelia Dyer, Victorian nurse and baby-farmer hanged for murder
  • Bert Dyer (born 1886), English footballer who played for Southampton F.C.
  • Bruce Dyer
  • Buddy Dyer, politician, mayor of Orlando
  • Charles Dyer, British architect (1794–1848)
  • Clay Dyer
  • Colin Dyer
  • Danny Dyer
  • Deborah Dyer
  • Dennis Dyer
  • Eddie Dyer
  • Sir Edward Dyer, English courtier and poet (1543–1607)
  • Elinor Brent-Dyer, British author
  • Eliphalet Dyer
  • Fred Dyer, British boxer and entertainer
  • Geoff Dyer
  • George Dyer (disambiguation)
  • Greg Dyer
  • Gwynne Dyer
  • Hector Dyer
  • Henry Dyer
  • Herbert Dyer
  • Isadore Dyer
  • J. Milton Dyer (1870–1957), American architect
  • Jack Dyer
  • Jack M. Dyer
  • Jane Dyer, American illustrator
  • Jesse Farley Dyer, American Medal of Honor recipient
  • John Dyer, Welsh poet
  • Joyce Dyer
  • Ken Dyer (1946–2010), American football player
  • Kieron Dyer, English international football (soccer) player
  • Leonidas C. Dyer, Republican Missouri Senator in the 67th Congress
  • Lloyd Dyer
  • Louis Dyer
  • Maria (Tarn) Dyer
  • Mary Dyer, colonial American Quaker religious martyr
  • Mary Marshall Dyer
  • Mike Dyer (disambiguation)
  • Nehemiah Dyer
  • Nick Dyer
  • Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, British mathematician
  • Reginald Dyer (1864-1927), British colonel, responsible for the Amritsar massacre
  • Richard Dyer
  • Richard Dyer-Bennet
  • Robert Allen Dyer, South African botanist
  • Rolla Dyer
  • Sarah Dyer
  • Senimili Dyer
  • Samuel Dyer (missionary with the London Missionary Society)
  • T. F. Thistleton-Dyer, British author
  • Thomas Dyer
  • Thomas Henry Dyer
  • Walter Alden Dyer
  • Wayne Dyer (Wayne W. Dyer), self-help author and speaker
  • William Dyer (settler), founding settler of Portsmouth and Newport, Rhode Island; husband of Mary Dyer
  • William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, British botanist (1843–1928)

Usage examples of "dyer".

After them march the guilds and trades and trainbands with flying colours: coopers, bird fanciers, millwrights, newspaper canvassers, law scriveners, masseurs, vintners, trussmakers, chimneysweeps, lard refiners, tabinet and poplin weavers, farriers, Italian warehousemen, church decorators, bootjack manufacturers, undertakers, silk mercers, lapidaries, salesmasters, corkcutters, assessors of fire losses, dyers and cleaners, export bottlers, fellmongers, ticketwriters, heraldic seal engravers, horse repository hands, bullion brokers, cricket and archery outfitters, riddlemakers, egg and potato factors, hosiers and glovers, plumbing contractors.

Sir Pertinax and Gurth the Dyer had broken through their assailants and made good their escape.

Collum Dyer, veteran of many campaigns, dealer and risker of death, was as frightened as a child.

Dyer came from near the Brennish borderlands in the east and had never seen the old Northmarch Road.

People criticized General Dyer but certainly his action at Amritsar had nipped what could have have been a nasty bit of trouble in the bud.

Dyer Construction Company of California moved in its skilled engineers and the Union Pacific started building a spur down which the beets would arrive and along which the bags of sugar would depart.

After some searching around, Dyer recognized a gallery that led to the area where the Decoupler computers were situated and near which the branch conduit from the main shaft terminated.

Next, the dyer needed to prepare the dyebath, either by boiling and straining plant matter or by grinding prepared dyestuffs.

In addition to water and fuel, the dyers needed copper vats for preparing dyebaths, wooden vats for dyeing the fabric, furnaces for heating the water and boiling the dyes, hooks, rods, barrows and winches to move the fabric around, tools for grinding the dyestuffs, the dyestuffs themselves, mordants, and a building large enough to use and store it all.

It is truly astonishing what a great range of shades can thus be dyed by using two or three dyes suitably mixed together, and one of the things which go to making a successful dyer and colourist is the grasping of this fact by careful observation, and working accordingly.

I spoke to you Wednesday about Father Dyer, I described the authentic Gemini M.

Dyers and weavers devoured alum, and so did glassmakers and papermakers among others.

Sybella Honoria Masham Dyer, Dowager Duchess of Wessex and grandmother of the present Duke, had no interest in the beauties of the English countryside.

Treating the wool with chlorine has a material influence in increasing its capacity for taking dye-stuffs, and although but little attention has been paid to this circumstance by wool dyers, yet among wool printers it has come largely into use, and enables them to produce fuller and faster shades than would otherwise be possible.

The heavy industry, the large mills, the dyers, the tanners, the wagonwrights, and the rest, were not evident.