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furnisher|ˈfɜːnɪʃə(r)|
[f. furnish v. + -er1.]
1. a. One who furnishes, in senses of the vb.; spec. one who supplies furniture. b. Austral. Mining (See quot. 1869.)
1611Cotgr., Fournisseur, a furnisher. 1632Lithgow Trav. vi. 269 Their victuals are brought dayly..each furnisher ringing the Bell, giveth warning to his friends, to come receive their necessars. 1694Acc. Sev. Late Voy. ii. (1711) 158 The Line-furnisher, or the Man that doth look after the Ropes. 1759Fountainhall Decis. I. 303 Some gave out the Duchess of Lauderdale as a..furnisher of him with money. 1869R. B. Smyth Goldf. Victoria 612 Furnisher, a capitalist who by erecting machinery for, or otherwise assisting a party of miners working a claim, becomes entitled to a share of the profits. 1881Daily News 8 Nov. 5/2 The furnishers of pantomine properties. 1894Westm. Gaz. 16 Aug. 3/1 Diversity is the aim of the modern furnisher.
2. In textile printing, a revolving brush or roller that supplies the colour.
1897C. F. S. Rothwell Printing Textile Fabrics i. 29 The furnisher generally revolves the same way as the printing roller, and consists then of the ordinary cloth-covered wooden roller; but when pigment colours, or any colour that has a tencency to stick in the engraving, are being printed it is usual to use a brush furnisher and to work it in the opposite way. 1898F. H. Thorp Outl. Industr. Chem. i. 495 The color is fed to the print roll from the color box by a revolving cylindrical brush called the ‘furnisher’, which dips into the color paste. 1961Blackshaw & Brightman Dict. Dyeing 29 The Brush Furnisher is used for print pastes containing a high solids content of heavy density ingredients such as zinc oxide. |