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prolonger|prəʊˈlɒŋə(r)|
[f. prolong v. + -er1.]
One who or that which prolongs: see the verb.
1548Elyot Dict., Cunctator.., a taryar, a deferrer, a lyngerer, a prolonger of tyme. 1574J. Jones Nat. Beginning Grow. Things 41 Prolongers of life. 1655Fuller Waltham Abb. (1840) 265 Those common prolongers of all suits,..the heat of men's anger, and the bellows of instruments gaining by law. 1902Daily Chron. 23 Apr. 7/1 He..would not be called the founder of a Mecklenburg dynasty in the Netherlands, but only the prolonger of the House of Orange-Nassau in the female line.
†b. A kind of save-all for a candle. Also fig.
1650Fuller Pisgah iii. ix. 428 Temperance is the best prolonger of the candle of life. 1656in Sussex Archæol. Coll. I. 70, 2 prolongers and an extinguisher. a1679R. Wild Benefice iv. (1689) 44 If Patents and Monopolies had had Prolongers, they had not gone out yet. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. xiv. (Roxb.) 5/2 Prolongers or saue-alls..are things made after the form of a candle sockett and are set in the stick as the sockett is. |