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wallower|ˈwɒləʊə(r)|
[f. wallow v.1 + -er1.]
1. A person or animal that wallows.
1611Cotgr., Veautreur, a wallower, or tumbler in the mire. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1768) VIII. 61 What miry wallowers the generality of men of our class are in themselves. 1767T. Nevile Imit. Juvenal xiii. 154 Lust's Votaries who live and die, Eternal Wall'wers in Circean sty. 1823Scott Quentin D. xxii, Ye porkers of Liege! ye wallowers in the mud of the Maes! 1876Morris Sigurd ii. (1877) 112, I knew that the Worm was Fafnir, the Wallower on the Gold. 1898Meredith Odes Fr. Hist. 15 He knew..what raised This wallower in old slime to noblest heights.
2. Mech. A trundle, lantern-wheel. Also wallower-wheel.
1548in Rep. MSS. Ld. Middleton (1911) 493 Paid to Smaley for a newe waloer, iiijd. 1734Phil. Trans. XXXVIII. 404 By enlarging or diminishing the fix'd Wallower, you obtain a Stroke of any required Height. 1773W. Emerson Princ. Mech. (ed. 3) 284 Wallower, a trundle upon a horizontal axis. 1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 97 The vertical shaft FE carries the two equal wallower-wheels E and F. 1866C. W. Hatfield Hist. Notices Doncaster I. 203 The usual face wheel..gears into a main pinion or ‘wallower’. |