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locator|ləʊˈkeɪtə(r)|
Also locater, 7 -our.
[a. L. locātor, agent-n. f. locāre to locate.]
1. One who lets for hire; esp. in Civil and Sc. Law.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 55 Some buy kie and let them forth to farm, reserving the Calf to themselves; and if by the negligence of the Cowherd, the Cow cast the Calf, the hirer is bound to answer the value, but if it miscarry without his negligence, then is the loss equall to the Locatour or Farmer. 1652Needham tr. Selden's Mare Cl. 87 The people was Lord thereof and Letter or Locator. 1681Visct. Stair Instit. i. xv. § 6 (1693) 130 The Obligation on the part of the Locator, is to deliver the thing locat, and to conti[n]ue it during the time of the Location. 1872Bell's Princ. Law Scot. §133 (ed. 6) 60 The Locator or Letter of the subject or of the labour. 1875Poste Gaius iii. Comm. (ed. 2) 423 The locator supplies a service for which the conductor pays the price.
2. U.S. One who ‘locates’ (see locate v. 2); one who takes up a grant of land, opens a mine, etc.
1817Chief Justice Marshall in H. Wheaton Rep. II. 211 A subsequent locator..must look for the beginning called for in this entry twelve miles below the mouth of Licking. 1882B. Harte Gentl. La Porte, As one of the original locators of the Eagle Mine he enjoyed a certain income. 1883Century Mag. XXV. 585 Here no locator encroached upon his neighbor's claim. 1883Stevenson Silverado Sq. 220 The place for the locator's name at the end of the first copy.
3. One who places persons in office. rare.
1816–30Bentham Offic. Apt. Maximized, Extract Const. Code (1830) 34 Of this scrutiny, as of the other, the result will lie in the view of each locator.
4. Something which locates; spec. a device for indicating the position or direction of something. Also attrib.
1902Cyclists' Touring Club Gaz. Aug. 359/1 A spicule of flint..pierced my tube, but kindly remained in evidence as a locater. 1919Nature 30 Oct. 182/1 Sound-locators were also used to board anti-submarine craft. 1951Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) iii. 29 Locator beacon, a non⁓directional radio-beacon of low power, associated with a recognized instrument landing system. 1971J. B. Carroll et al. Word Frequency Bk. p. xix, The editorial outputs prepared from the tape files included..a locator list that can be used to determine the source of every token in the Corpus. 1973Black Panther 21 July p. b, The automatic car locator system. |