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fighter|ˈfaɪtə(r)|
[? OE. feohtere (Lye) = OHG. fehtâri (MHG. vehtære, mod.Ger. fechter): see fight v. and -er1.]
1. a. One who fights; occas. a fighting man, a warrior.
c1300K. Alis. 5703 Alle his gode fightteres. 1375Barbour Bruce xi. 102 He had of fechtaris with hym thar Ane hundreth thousand men and ma. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 66/1 This geaunt hath ben a fightar fro his chyldehod. 1685Baxter Paraphr. N.T. Matt. x. 16 Sheep and Doves are no good fighters against Wolves and Hawks. 1763Churchill Ghost i. 173 Whether repletion is not bad, And fighters with full stomachs mad. 1823Byron Juan xiv. xx, I've seen them [writers] balance even the scale with fighters. 1883Stevenson Treasure Isl. i. ii. (1886) 11 He did not look much like a fighter.
fig.a1300Cursor M. 18081 (Cott.) A faint fighter me thinc er þou. c1430Life St. Kath. (Gibbs MS.) 64 My lord ihesu criste whyche is þe hope and croune of alle his fyghters. 1656S. Winter Serm. 181 Lest you seem to..be found fighters against the Lord of hosts. 1861Trench Epistles 7 Churches 86 These daring fighters against God.
†b. One employed to fight; a champion, bully.
1611Beaum. & Fl. Maid's Trag. iv. i, Y'are grown a glorious Whore, where be your Fighters? c1683Roxb. Ball. V. 215 Keep Frank still for your writer, And Poulteney for your fighter.
†2. A pugnacious person; a brawler. Obs.
c1400Destr. Troy 1751 The fortune of feghters may be fell chaunse. 1413Lydg. Pilgr. Sowle iv. xxxv. (1483) 83 Robbours..fyghters and debatours. 1552Act 5–6 Edw. VI, c. 4 §3 Fray-makers and Fighters. 1557N. T. (Genev.) 1 Tim. iii. 3 No fighter, nor couetous.
3. Aeronaut. A high-speed military aircraft designed for aerial combat.
1917[see bomber 2]. 1936Economist 8 Feb. 294/2 There will still be..two squadrons of bombing machines..to one squadron of fighters. 1960C. H. Gibbs-Smith Aeroplane i. xvi. 139 (caption) The turbojet Gloster Javelin fighter. 1971H. F. King World's Fighters xi. 116 Several different armament combinations are possible on the Lightning fighter.
4. attrib. and Comb., as fighter aerodrome, fighter cover, fighter duty, fighter escort, fighter machine, fighter patrol, fighter pilot, fighter plane, fighter screen, fighter squadron, fighter strip, fighter umbrella. Also fighter-bomber, an aircraft that combines the functions of a fighter and a bomber; Fighter Command, the headquarters controlling the operation of a fleet of fighters.
1941Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. War 19 Mar.–13 May 43 He sent large forces to deal with fighter aerodromes in the south and south-east of England.
1936Air Stories Dec. 544/1 The R.A.F.'s latest fighter-bomber is as fast as any fighter yet in service anywhere in the world. 1959Observer 14 June 16/2 American fighter-bombers equipped with nuclear weapons.
1941Aeronautics Dec. 39/1 ‘Fighter Command’ did not pass into Everyman's vocabulary until well after the beginning of the war. 1942Jane's All World's Aircraft 1941 13a/1 Fighter Command's contribution to the bombing offensive opened on November 1, 1941, when the new Hawker ‘Hurricane II’ fighter-bomber..went into action.
1941D. Garnett War in Air 107 The number of Fighters with the Air Component of the B.E.F. was increased..and Fighter cover was given on the Western flank.
1934Times 28 July 9/5 It is a tribute to the success of the Territorial experiment..that these squadrons should have been chosen for fighter duty. 1939War Weekly 24 Nov. 139/4 In the hours of darkness fighter-planes will rarely, if ever, attack bombers, and, therefore, raids carried out entirely in darkness have no need of fighter escort.
1919N. Flower Hist. Great War XIII. 121/2 The German aviation service was in extreme need of fighter machines..and aerial machine-gunners.
1917Flying 3 Oct. 161/2 A fighter patrol met a large formation of Albatross scouts. 1936Air Stories Dec. 573/2 The likelihood of securing a hit is in the proportion of 9 to 1 in favour of the fighter pilot. 1939Flight 19 Oct. 309 Fighter pilots in crews' quarters on an aerodrome. 1971Sunday Times 1 Aug. 3/6 The fighter pilot..parachuted to safety.
1935Economist 17 Aug. 320/1 Unless the raiding enemy can be located he is immune..from the defending fighter planes. 1941Battle of Britain, Aug.–Oct. 1940 13 The covering fighter screen flew at very great heights.
193219th Cent. Feb. 202 The enemy forces which are locked up by attack are fighter squadrons. 1944Birmingham (Ala.) News 25 Apr. 1/1 Australian Royal Air Force engineers worked at night under floodlights..to repair the bomber and fighter strips.
1942Flight 27 Aug. 218/2 Everything..depended on the British fighter umbrella. |