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▪ I. teaser1|ˈtiːzə(r)|
Forms: 4 tezir, 5 teser, 6 teasor, 7 teyser, 7–9 teazer, 8 teizer, 8– teaser.
[f. tease v.1 + -er1.]
One who or that which teases, in various senses.
1. a. One who teases wool, cotton, or the like.
1483Cath. Angl. 380/2 A Teser, carponarius. 1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Carmenador, a teasor, carminator. 1611Cotgr., Tireur de laine, a Teyser of wooll. 1824Galt Rothelan II. iv. i. 99 The teasers and carders had started in alarm from their tasks. 1864Jane Cameron Mem. Convict I. 119 Among the female convicts there were oakum-pickers and teazers,..hair and cotton teazers.
b. An instrument or machine for teasing wool, etc.
1395Cartular. Abb. de Whiteby (Surtees) 614 Item pro viii swewyls, viii.d. Item pro iiii tezirs, xiiii.d. 1852Dickens in Househ. Words 24 Apr. 118/2 The clay..is put into mills or teazers, and is sliced, and dug, and cut at. 1876Daily News 17 June, The fire is thought to have originated with the ‘teazer’, a machine used for ‘teazing’ the wool in its rough state. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 289/1 The teaser [for gutta-percha]..a drum containing a rotating cylinder armed with teeth.
Comb.1882W. Gibson Remin. Dollar 152 The teazer-house with all its contents was burnt down.
2. a. One who teases or annoys: see tease v.1 2.
1659Commonwealth Ballads (Percy Soc.) 200 Old Oliver was a teazer. 1712Steele Spect. No. 288 ⁋3 One who would lessen the Number of Teazers of the Muses. 1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. xi, She's a regular teazer.
b. Local name of several birds which chase gulls and force them to disgorge their prey, as the skua. (Cf. dung-teaser, dung 5 c, gull-teaser, gull1 c.)
1833G. Montagu's Ornith. Dict. 143 Teaser... A prov. name for Buffon's Skua, Lestris Buffonii. 1885Swainson Provinc. Names Birds 210 Richardson's Skua. Gulls..when engaged in fishing, are pursued and harassed by these birds till they disgorge their prey... Hence the name Teaser.
c. An inferior stallion or ram used to excite mares or ewes.
1823Bee Dict. Turf s.v. 1888Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., Teaser, a young ram which is allowed to run with the ewes, but is artificially prevented from copulation.
†d. A hound used in hunting: see teiser. Obs.
e. In elephant-hunting: see quot.
1888Pall Mall G. 30 May 6/1 When we find them, the teasers, who are the most courageous of the hunters, begin to tease the leaders of the herd. The bulls soon become angry and excited and give chase to the teasers.
f. A woman who arouses but evades amorous advances; a ‘cock-teaser’. colloq.
1895Cornh. Mag. Apr. 395 My Joan allus be a teäzer, zur, and when I's wanted to kiss zhe, zhe zes ‘Noa, it ain't proper.’ 1939C. R. Cooper Teen-Age Vice (1959) iii. 54 The true B-girl is often nothing more than a professional teaser..selling drinks by fraudulent inferences. 1957J. Braine Room at Top vi. 57 She leads young men on and then she turns prim... She's a born teaser. 1980J. Gardner Garden of Weapons i. xi. 111 Martha..sensual in a very obvious way. Herbert always suspected she was a teaser with men.
g. A strip-tease act; a strip-tease artist.
1929[see runway 2 a]. 1930Variety 1 Oct. 49 Miss Dix copped the show from the other femmes with her naughty numbers and teasers. 1931C. Beaton Diary 13 Feb. in Wandering Years (1961) 217 There were lots of ‘teaser’ numbers... The leading lady..tantalisingly takes off one piece of clothing at a time.
3. a. Something that teases, or causes annoyance; something difficult to deal with, a ‘poser’. colloq. In Pugilistic slang, an opponent difficult to tackle or overcome.
1759Franklin Ess. Wks. 1840 III. 380 He plyed them with another teaser. 1812Sporting Mag. XL. 66 The writer cannot encourage the beaten man with hopes of ever being a teazer in the gymnastic line. 1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. l, It was a teaser to read. 1883E. Pennell-Elmhirst Cream Leicestersh. 75 The next [fence] is indeed a teaser, where the best horse..might crack under the saddle.
b. slang. A flogging. ? Obs.
1832Examiner 188/1 What they had done was ‘not big enough for transportation, nor for a teaser’ (a whipping).
c. In Cricket, a ball that is difficult to play. ? Obs.
1856G. L. H. in V. Dayrell Weeds from Isis 69 Your cricketing boy, full of teasers and twisters. 1905H. A. Vachell Hill xii. 249 Fluff's brother bowled slows of a good length, with an awkward break from the off to the leg. ‘Teasers,’ said the caterpillar critically.
d. Naut. slang. A knotted rope's end.
1910[see blood-knot s.v. blood n. 21]. 1953J. Masefield Conway (rev. ed.) iv. 217 The rope's end, or teaser, made one learn very quickly. 1962W. Granville Dict. Sailor's Slang 118/2 Teaser, short length of rope with a ‘hangman's knot’ at the end, used for chastising Conway cadets in the ‘tough old days’.
e. U.S. Theatr. (See quots.)
1916A. E. Krows Play Production in Amer. xii. 87 The first border (all the borders are numbered consecutively from front to back) is called the teaser. 1923C. J. De Goveia Community Playhouse vii. 80 Just inside the proscenium arch stand two strips of scenery, one on each side of the stage, and usually with a third piece, a border, stretched across the top. The two strips are called Tormentors and the particular border the Teaser. These pieces are movable. 1933P. Godfrey Back-Stage iii. 34 The ‘teaser’ and the ‘tormentor’ are the respective names by which an overhead and side masking arrangement prevents the audience from looking into the wings and the flies.
f. A fisherman's device (orig. live bait) for attracting fish. orig. U.S.
1919Z. Grey Tales of Fishes xi. 203 We had three of these flying-fish out as teasers, all close to the boat. 1924― Tales Southern Rivers 14 The use of teasers..was first used by Avalon boatmen in Marlin fishing. I tried it.., and pronounced it a failure because mackerel, barracuda, and other fish snapped off the cut-bait teasers as fast as they could be put out. 1937E. Hemingway To have & have Not i. i. 17 Eddy put the two big teasers out and the nigger had baits on three rods. 1939H. Major Salt Water Fishing Tackle ii. 69 The first artificial teasers of which I've heard were used by Zane Grey, and I believe he originated them. Most of them are made of wood or metal, brightly colored. 1960A. Upfield Myst. Swordfish Reef vi. 56 To these lines were attached brightly painted cylinders of wood which, when tossed overboard..darted beneath and skimmed over the surface..Teasers, Wilton explained..‘the bait-fish and the two teasers look to a shark or swordie just like a small shoal of fish.’ 1967[see plugger d].
g. A kind of toy pipe with a coil (of paper, etc.) at the end which shoots out when one blows down the stem.
1935A. J. Cronin Stars look Down iii. viii. 554 They had teasers, too, which blew out and hit you as you passed. 1977D. Jones My Friend Dylan Thomas i. 6 Some of them were wearing paper hats..some..blew feather ‘teasers’ at each other.
4. Electr. Engin.
†a. The shunt winding of a compound-wound dynamo or motor. Obs.
b. The winding or transformer that is connected to the middle of the other transformer in a T-connection. Freq. attrib.
1878C. Brush Brit. Pat. 2003 9 This device, which I have called a ‘teaser’, is used in connection with field magnets..for the purpose of..increasing the magnetic field. Ibid., The teaser wire may be coarser than the principal magnet wire. 1884S. P. Thompson Dynamo-Electric Machinery vi. 92 The shunt part of the circuit, originally called the ‘teazer’, was adopted at first in machines for electro-plating. 1886Ibid. (ed. 2) x. 238 Brush made the important invention of exciting the field magnets with a compound winding; coarse wire coils being connected in series, with the addition of a so-called ‘teazer’ coil of finer wire to maintain the magnetism when the main circuit was opened. 1900― Polyphase Electric Currents (ed. 2) v. 143 The teazer winding is connected with one end to the middle of the main winding. 1937J. B. Gibbs Transformer Princ. & Pract. xi. 82 One transformer, called the ‘main transformer’ is connected between two of the three-phase lines,..and the ‘teaser transformer’ is connected between the third line and the 50 per cent tap of the main transformer, using the 86.6 per cent tap of the teaser. 1981G. McPherson Introd. Electr. Machines iii. 221 In the T connection, one transformer has its primary connected directly across two lines. This is called the ‘main transformer’. The second transformer is called the ‘teaser’.
5. An introductory advertisement, esp. an excerpt or sample designed to stimulate interest or curiosity. orig. and chiefly U.S.
1934Webster, Teaser, an advertisement meant to arouse curiosity, sometimes by withholding part of the material information (Trade Slang, U.S.). 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 835/2 Teaser, colloquialism for a trailer which is intended to advertise films for future exhibition in a cinema. 1960M. T. Williams Art of Jazz 86 Old Town..was plastered with ‘teaser’ posters heralding the coming of the famous..Minstrels. 1962Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 8 Nov. 38/1 A teaser is..a stimulating bit from the story to follow and opens a show. 1962S. E. Hyman Tangled Bank 378 At the end of a lecture, Freud will sometimes tack on a teaser for the next, such as: ‘At the next lecture we shall see whether we can agree with the poets in their conception of the meaning of psychological errors.’ 1977‘J. le Carré’ Hon. Schoolboy xii. 270 Our agent asked Ricardo for a teaser so's the information could be evaluated back home.
▪ II. ˈteaser2 local.
Also 8 tisor.
[ad. mod.F. tiseur a fireman; cf. tease v.2]
a. One who ‘teases’ or attends to a fire or furnace; a stoker, fireman.
1797P. Wakefield Mental Improv. (1801) I. 148 The tisors, or persons employed in heating the large furnaces. 1835Sir J. Ross Narr. 2nd Voy. xxvi. 377 Two mates, and one of the fire teasers. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Teazer, the stoker or fireman in a glass-work who attends the furnace. 1894[see teasing vbl. n.2].
b. An instrument for ‘teasing’ a fire; a poker.
1839Ure Dict. Arts 63 The furnace and implements used for assaying in the Royal Mint and the Goldsmiths' Hall... Fig. 66, the teaser for cleaning the grate. Fig. 67, a larger teaser, which is introduced at the top of the furnace, for keeping a complete supply of charcoal around the muffle. |