Crossword clues for reliever
reliever
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reliever \Re*liev"er\ (-?r), n. One who, or that which, relieves.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., agent noun from relieve. Baseball sense ("relief pitcher") is attested by 1945.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context baseball English) A relief pitcher. 2 Someone who fills in for another.
WordNet
n. someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult); "the star had a stand-in for dangerous scenes"; "we need extra employees for summer fill-ins" [syn: stand-in, substitute, relief, backup, backup man, fill-in]
a person who reduces the intensity (e.g., of fears) and calms and pacifies; "a reliever of anxiety"; "an allayer of fears" [syn: allayer, comforter]
a pitcher who does not start the game [syn: relief pitcher, fireman]
Usage examples of "reliever".
The guard had already been dispersed--some with the Relievers, some heading off to find Larc and Merth and the rest of the Flying Hart Four.
I also have it on good authority that racquetball is considered a great stress reliever.
Other waggons held drag-chains, crooked-sponges, relievers, bricoles, wad-hooks, sabot-bracers, and hand-spikes.
It is on record how dramatic was the meeting between the mounted outposts of the defenders and the advance guard of the relievers, whose advent seems to have been equally unexpected by friend and foe.
He even tried to grow a Fu Manchu mustache a few years back, like the one the famed reliever wore.
He went on to explain that levomethorphan is a very effective pain reliever prescribed almost exclusively for people terminally ill with cancer.
I was turning through the contents of my medicine chest, wondering whether a general pain reliever like willow-bark tea or horehound with fennel would work on a phantom pain.
Beside the guns were the tools of the artillerymen's trade: drag-chains, relievers, rammers, sponges, buckets, searchers, rammers, wormhooks, portfires and handspikes.
Could the general have overdosed on over-the-counter pain relievers until his tongue turned black and gone off the grain elevator like a stock trader during the depression?