Crossword clues for charger
charger
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Charger \Char"ger\, n.
One who, or that which charges.
An instrument for measuring or inserting a charge.
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A large dish. [Obs.]
Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger.
--Matt. xiv. 8. -
A horse for battle or parade.
--Macaulay.And furious every charger neighed.
--Campbell.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "one who loads," agent noun from charge (v.). Meaning "horse ridden in charging" is from 1762.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A device that charges or recharges. 2 A large horse trained for battle and used by the cavalry. They were of a lighter build than a destrier 3 A large platter. 4 One who charges. 5 (context firearms English) A speedloader that holds several cartridges together in a single unit for easier loading of a firearm's magazine. 6 (context prison English) A rectal concealment container for prohibited material such as money, drugs and tools.
WordNet
n. formerly a strong horse ridden into battle
a device for charging or recharging batteries [syn: battery charger]
Wikipedia
Charger or Chargers may refer to:
- NATO code name for the Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic transport
- Convair Charger prototype light attack and observation aircraft
- Charger (table setting), decorative plates used to fancify a place setting
- Charger (Transformers), a fictional character
- Battery charger, a device used to put energy into a cell or battery
- Capacitor charger, typically a high voltage DC power supply designed to rapidly charge a bank of capacitors in pulsed power applications
- Whipped-cream charger, a cartridge designed to deliver nitrous oxide in a whipped cream dispenser
- Charger (firearm), a common and chiefly British term for a stripper clip, used in the reloading of firearms
- Charger (locomotive), a model of diesel-electric rail locomotive
- A medieval war horse
- A type of special infected in Left 4 Dead 2
- The squadron name for US Navy Strike Fighter Squadron VFA-161
In sports:
- Gold Coast Chargers, an Australian rugby league team
- San Diego Chargers, a professional American football team
- Deccan Chargers, Indian cricket team
- Alabama–Huntsville Chargers
- South West London Chargers, a rugby league club
- Jackson Chargers, a soccer club
In cars:
- Dodge Charger, three entirely different Dodge vehicles bearing the Charger nameplate
- Chrysler Valiant Charger, produced by Chrysler Australia from 1971
The Charger can refer to any number of medieval English war-horses:
- The Destrier
- The Courser
- The Rouncey
Usage examples of "charger".
Small boys came running to roadsides to watch the lines of riders all ajingle on their tall chargers, the pennons fluttering at the sparkling steel tips of the long, polished lances of ashwood, sunbeams flashing from plumed helmets, cuirasses and hilts of sabers and dirks.
The hatch cover was already off, and using the main boom held at an angle by the peak halyard, the two chargers were lifted by bellybands, swayed over the side and set in place on the sand.
He looked back and saw his followers: millions of them, millions of Blades, all himself and all on black chargers.
So silent and still were they, that they might have been metal-sheathed statues, were it not for the occasional quick, impatient stamp of their chargers, or the rattle of chamfron against neck-plates as they tossed and strained.
His charger wore a blanket of enameled crimson scales and gilded crinet and chamfron, while Lord Tywin himself sported a thick ermine cloak.
All the Russians were informed of this great festival, which was to be given at the expense of the sovereign, and the princes, counts, and barons were already arriving with their chargers from the most remote parts of the empire.
From astride his snorting charger, Lord Diegan glared down at his prince, who accepted his demise without rancor for mud-spoiled velvets.
Two Boilings or Two Kettles, Charger knew the names of only two gentes, which he gave to Reverend H.
Turning, Laria saw her brother Thian, his white lock flopping across his face, round the bend on his chunky black pony, Charger, Mrg and Dpi trudging along beside him.
The first few ranks were heavy-armed, plate rerebraces and vambraces on their arms instead of mail sleeves, heavy pauldrons protecting their shoulders, visored helmets, mounted on huge chargers, real old-style brewery-wagon horses.
Dain held his ground as the charger, wearing its head plate and armored saddlecloth, galloped straight at him.
Another man, both taller and stockier than the slender Ambassador, dismounted and handed the reins of his charger to a kneeling groom.
At the Sick Horse Depot Connor had, without good cause, made some disparaging remarks upon the charger ridden by Subadar Goordit Singh at the fight at Dihilbat Hill, which towers over the village of Hashin.
We also mucked around with battery chargers and microphone headsets, and cleaned things up in the Green Hab, which is connected to the habitat structure and processes our wastewater through plastic filters and five different baths of algae and bacteria.
And it was why men like Lukien and the other Royal Chargers followed him, even into the heart of Reec.