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erector|ɪˈrɛktə(r)|
Also 6– erecter.
[f. erect v. + -or.]
One who, or that which, erects.
1. a. One who erects or rears a building, statue, etc.
1538Leland Itin. III. 97 Richard Poure..first Erector of the Cathedral Chirch of New Saresbyri. 1563Homilies ii. Peril Idol. (1859) 239 Therefore woe be to the erecter, setter up, and maintainer of images in churches and temples. 1648W. Mountague Devout Ess. i. (T.), Rehoboam's young counsellors were, in some relation, the Erectors of Jeroboam's calves. 1823Scott Peveril i, William Peveril..the erector of that Gothic fortress. 1884Birmghm. Daily Post 24 Jan. 3/5 Good Bridge Erectors and Carpenters.
b. spec. An engineer who works at the assembling of engines and other iron and steel structures.
1892Daily Chron. 28 Apr. 9/2 Engineer, Fitter, or Erector. 1905Westm. Gaz. 18 Dec. 7/1 Charles Grove, a foreman erector of steel work.
c. A machine used in erecting iron and steel structures.
1895Daily News 31 Oct. 6/5 These ‘erectors’ are two hydraulic appliances for lifting up and fixing in position the ponderous segments of the iron ring constituting the exterior of the tunnel. 1909Daily Chron. 19 May 3/4 The tunnel shield, complete, with hydraulic erector.
†2. One who institutes an office, rule, or practice; the founder of an institution; also, one who sets up a candidate or pretender. Obs. exc. as fig. of 1.
1548in Stow Surv. (1754) I. iii. v. 580/2 Their [the Hospitals'] chiefe Erector being dead. 1580North Plutarch (1676) 246 And for the holy Band..Gorgidas was the first erector of the same. 1609Man in Moone (1849) 16 Idlenesse patrone, Pride's founder, Gluttonies erector. 1611Speed Theat. Gt. Brit. (1614) 66 The erectors of Lambert, a counterfet Warwick. 1648King's Messages for Peace 73 The erectors and propugnators of the Presbyterian Discipline in Scotland. 1754Phil. Trans. XLVIII. 463 Pherecydes was the original erecter of it. 1803Bingham in N. & Q. Ser. iii. III. 76 They were..simply the result of a fashion, or the taste, or means of the erecter. 1850Mrs. Browning Poems I. 153 How I, The erector of the empire in his hand,—Am bent beneath that hand.
3. Optics. = erecting-glass (see erecting vbl. n. 2).
4. A term applied to certain muscles, from their office in causing erection in any part of the body. Also attrib., as in erector-muscle.
1831R. Knox Cloquet's Anat. 187 The erector muscles of the spine. 1857Bullock tr. Cazeaux' Midwif. 42 The clitoris..has..an erector muscle. 1876Duhring Dis. Skin 29 Erectores pili or erectors of the hair.
Add:5. (With capital initial.) A proprietary name for a child's toy consisting of a set of metal pieces, nuts, bolts, etc. designed for making small mechanical models, esp. of vehicles, cranes, or other structures such as bridges. Usu. as Erector set. Chiefly U.S.
1915Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 9 Mar. 681/2 (Class 22. Games, toys, and sporting goods.) The Mysto Mfg. Co., New Haven, Conn... Erector. 1921Trade Marks Jrnl. 19 Jan. 131 Erector. Use claimed from 15th October, 1915... Structural Toys. 1936Fortune Dec. 42/4 A. C. Gilbert is the manufacturer of Erector Sets, which are so popular with mechanically-minded small boys. 1959Listener 5 Mar. 411/2 The gun..would be abandoned in the middle of someone's turn for the erector set. 1974M. Taylor tr. Metz's Film Lang. iii. 34 Erector set, electric train: both montage toys. 1980Washington Post 27 June (Weekend Suppl.) 36/2 You can gaze out at what appears to be an erector set in the middle-distance: the Domino Sugar factory. |