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extinguisher|ɛkˈstɪŋgwɪʃə(r)|
[f. as prec. + -er1.]
1. One who or that which extinguishes; spec. = fire-extinguisher (fire n. B. 2).
1560Whitehorne Arte Warre (1588) 18 b, Heads [Captains], extinguishers of discention. 1601Weever Mirr. Mart. A vij, This heat extinguisher. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Wks. ii. 257/1 The Glorious Great Extinguisher of Night. 1654Whitlock Zootomia 303 Quarrells and Distempers..prove Extinguishers. 1814Sir R. Wilson Diary II. 341 The fat is blazing in the fire, and no extinguisher can be found. 1817Byron Let. to Murray 4 June, The name of their extinguisher was Gifford. 1887Daily News 7 Mar. 7/1 The Lewis Hand Fire Extinguisher. 1908Westm. Gaz. 14 May 12/2 The extinguishers..have..taps which give the operator absolute control of the instrument. 1930Engineering 10 Oct. 458/2 It was necessary to have a sufficient supply of chemical extinguishers on board.
2. a. spec. A hollow conical cap for extinguishing the light of a candle or lamp; also a similar object of large size formerly affixed to the railings of a house to enable the link-boys to extinguish their links.
1641W. Cartwright Ordinary i. v, In putting of 'm [candles] out..by The extinguisher. 1685Lond. Gaz. No. 2068/4 One Closet Candlestick, with Snuffers and Extinguisher. 1739–40Mrs. Delany Life & Corr. (1861) II. 88 Put out their flambeaux with great silver extinguishers. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge xvi, Extinguishers are yet suspended before the doors of a few houses of the better sort. 1857W. Collins Dead Secret i. i, She held the candlestick, so that the extinguisher lying loose in it rattled.
b. transf. and fig.
1697Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. ii. (1709) 30 Cover it [the vital Flame] with an Extinguisher of Honour. 1774Westm. Mag. II. 96 Put not one grand extinguisher on Plays; But with kind snuffers gently mend their blaze. 1884Pall Mall G. 1 May 4/1 ‘Eigg Island,’ with its singular Scuir or peak hidden under a thick extinguisher of cloud.
3. attrib. and Comb. extinguisher-shaped adj.; extinguisher-moss, a moss whose peristome closes inwards when touched by water.
1885Daily News 30 Apr. 4/8 The immeasurable height of the extinguisher hats of women when Richard II. was King.
1881A. G. C. Liddell in Macm. Mag. XLIV. 473/2 Sharp extinguisher-like spires..shot into the sky.
1821S. F. Gray Nat. Arr. Brit. Plants I. 725 Encalypta.., Extinguisher-moss. 1876Encycl. Brit. IV. 161/2 The Extinguisher-Moss (Encalypta).
1840Barham Ingol. Leg. 23 A shocking bad hat, Extinguisher-shaped. 1903Ld. R. Gower Rec. & Remin. 16 The towers with their extinguisher-shaped roofs. 1909A. Morrison Green Ginger 27 The wide fireplace and its blazing embers, stuck with black extinguisher-shaped beer-warmers.
1859Dickens T. Two Cities ii. ix, Extinguisher-topped towers.
Hence exˈtinguishership. nonce-wd.
1825New Monthly Mag. XIII. 193 God give his imperial extinguishership ‘a good deliverance.’ |