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ˈrazor-ˌgrinder
[f. razor n.]
1. One who grinds or sharpens razors.
1789Boston Directory 184 Fillis William, razor-grinder. 1798D. Wordsworth Jrnl. 22 Feb. (1941) I. 9 Met a razor-grinder with..a boy to drag his wheel. 1833Boston Herald 19 Mar. 4/3, I afterwards met a razor grinder and his wife. 1886Besant Childr. Gibeon ii. ii, They are buhl cutters,..razor grinders, glass bevellers.
2. A name given to various birds:
a. The Australian Dishwasher or Restless Fly-catcher (Seisura inquieta).
b. dial. The Night-jar.
c. dial. The Grasshopper Warbler.
a.1825Vigors in Trans. Linn. Soc. XV. 250 A loud noise..caused by a rasor-grinder when at work. 1848R. Howitt Australia 332 The razor-grinder, fitly so called from making a grinding noise as it wavers in one position a foot or two from the ground.
b.1895P. H. Emerson Birds, etc. Norfolk 153 The night⁓hawk, or big razor-grinder, as he is more rarely called in the Broadlands.
c.1895P. H. Emerson Birds, etc. Norfolk 50 This shy, mysterious bird, the ‘razor-grinder’, as he is often called in the Broad district. |