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scourer
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A tool used to scour, usually used to clean cookwares. 2 agent noun of scour; a person who scours. 3 (context obsolete English) A rover or footpad; a prowling robber.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ She turned round, holding a pan and a coiled wire scourer . ▪ The scourer , bought second hand, has been completely reconditioned as new by Douglas Reyburn's Engineers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scourer \Scour"er\, n. One who, or that which, scours. A rover or footpad; a prowling robber. In those days of highwaymen and scourers. --Macaulay.
Usage examples of scourer.
Some scourers use the same liquor, but it is better to use fresh liquors, after which it is washed in the same machine with water two or three times.
Kip bows acceptance, flourishing his scourer, as Hiner leans forward, obviously with the same intent.
Someone would eventually open this box, some investigator would eventually cotton to the knowledge that it existed and get some court order and scour it for clues, and so I rationalized that the initial scourer might as well be me.
It was the timid, pale, and unwashed face of a girl who was readily supposed to be a servant, taken from a cottage, and turned into a bringer of wood and water and a scourer of tubs and trenches.
There was the wife, and there were the children, and there was the vast distance, so vast that it might have discouraged even the fleet-footed scourer of the northern snows.
Romans beat the wood for them when they fled, and she, the fleer, was at point to be taken, and saw two taken indeed, and haled off by the Roman scourers of the wood.
CHARGERS that pant, And the hoofs that strike fire, And the scourers at dawn, Who stir up the dust with it, And cleave through a host with it!
Romans beat the wood for them when they fled, and she, the fleer, was at point to be taken, and saw two taken indeed, and haled off by the Roman scourers of the wood.
CHARGERS that pant, And the hoofs that strike fire, And the scourers at dawn, Who stir up the dust with it, And cleave through a host with it!