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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stirrer
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Lab-Plant has introduced a computer-controlled, electronic stirrer which can be programmed to perform a series of functions automatically and for long periods.
▪ She got out the glass pitcher and stirrer.
▪ Some ovens have a turntable and wave stirrers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stirrer

Stirrer \Stir"rer\, n. One who, or that which, stirs something; also, one who moves about, especially after sleep; as, an early stirrer.
--Shak.

Stirrer up, an instigator or inciter.
--Atterbury.

Wiktionary
stirrer

n. 1 A device used to stir. 2 A person who stirs something. 3 (context slang English) A person who spreads rumours or causes agitation. 4 One who stirs or moves about, as after sleep.

WordNet
stirrer
  1. n. a person who spreads frightening rumors and stirs up trouble [syn: scaremonger]

  2. an implement used for stirring

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "stirrer".

There are common barrators among doctors as there are among lawyers, --stirrers up of strife under one pretext and another, but in reality because they like it.

You are, Sir, a presumptuous, selfconceited pedagogue, a stirrer up of strife and commotion in church, in state, in families, and communities.

Then I called Fotis and sayd, Behold how Bacchus the egger and stirrer of Venery, doth offer him self of his owne accord, let us therefore drink up this wine, that we may prepare our selves and get us courage against soone, for Venus wanteth no other provision than this, that the Lamp may be all the night replenished with oyle, and the cups with wine.

The white-shirted engineer shouted at the stirrers to continue lest the concrete set unevenly, but he permitted the bearers to drop their heavy sacks where they stood and congregate toward the great doors, where the lunch wagon already waited.

There are common barrators among doctors as there are among lawyers, --stirrers up of strife under one pretext and another, but in reality because they like it.

I mean, I could rent a power washer, buy the paint, a sprayer, dropcloths and stirrers and everything and still wind up spending one-tenth what a housepainter was asking.

Rib bones were stirrers, large flat pelvic bones were plates and platters along with thin sections of logs.

She went to answer it and came back followed by the man whose portrait she was attempting, the second of her two blood stirrers, still stirring away.

Grateful for the opening, Giles nodded, then cast a perturbed glance at the double coffee maker dominating a neat array of mugs, disposable stirrers, sugar packets, and powdered creamer.

They were drinking coffee out of the heavy, crash-proof crockery at Paddywacks, and Brendan picked one of the plastic stirrers up off the table and fiddled with it at length, occupying himself.

In yet another way the same forces function as movers and stirrers of the macro-telluric processes of the earth, and beyond this of the happenings in the body of our planetary system, including the movements of the various planets.

A scholar, an adventurer, perhaps a Cabalist, a busy stirrer in politics, a gamester, one 'born for the fairer sex,' as he tells us, and born also to be a vagabond.

It was typical of her to prepare a treat so carefully - with linen napkin, stirrer and some cheese straws - and then forget about it.

I wish the laws of our country were competent to punish the stirrer up of sedition, the writer and printer of base and unfounded calumny,&rdquo.

The water in it moved swirlingly as the stirrer turned in motor-driven monomania, while the electric bulbs beneath the water, serving as heaters, flicked on and off distractingly, in time, with the, clicking of the mercury relay.