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blaster|ˈblɑːstə(r), -æ-|
[f. blast v. or (in sense 7) n. + -er1.]
1. One who blows or emits blasts.
1664Cotton Poet. Wks. (1765) 18 You there [Boreas], Goodman Blaster. 1854Blackie in Blackw. Mag. LXXVI. 261 That fiery blaster, Typhon.
†2. A trumpeter. Obs.
1575Laneham Let. (1871) 33 Triton, Neptunes blaster.
3. He who or that which blights, or ruins.
1599Marston Sco. Villanie, To Detract. 165 Vile blaster of the freshest bloomes on earth..Detraction. 1760Foote Minor i. i, Dead to pleasures themselves, and the blasters of it in others.
†4. One of the sect of free-thinkers in Ireland about 1738. Obs.
c1738Rep. Irish Comm. Relig. in Fraser Berkeley vii. 254 Loose and disorderly persons have of late erected themselves into a Society or Club under the name of Blasters.
5. One who blasts rocks.
1776Pennant Tour Scotl. (1790) III. 34 A blaster was kept in constant employment, to blast with gunpowder the great stones. 1884Pall Mall G. 10 Oct. 8/2 A rock blaster..explaining the working of a dynamite cartridge.
6. An iron borer used for rocks to be blasted.
7. Anything designed to produce a blast or draught of air.
1830M. Donovan Dom. Econ. I. 353 The smoke and soot..are carried up the funnel over the mouth of the oven, the ascent being promoted by laying a blaster over the mouth: the blaster is a large piece of sheet-iron.
8. dial. (Sc.) A smoker.
9. Science Fiction. A weapon that emits a destructive blast.
1950I. Asimov Pebble in Sky xvii. 179 It was a full-size blaster that could shred a man to atoms. 1958Listener 13 Nov. 775/2 Elijah Baley, the human detective, with a blaster-pistol.
10. Golf. = sand-iron (b) s.v. sand n.2 10.
1937H. Longhurst Golf i. xxii. 198 The blaster gives no margin for error above the ball, but an almost infinite margin below it. 1948Chambers's Jrnl. July 337/2 If you were a lovely young girl whose father had been a golf champion, would you touch a knock-kneed bowler even with a blaster? 1960R. Lardner Out of Bunker ix. 146, I bent my blaster into a sharp V and hurled it end over end high up into the branches of a nearby tree. 1975Oxf. Compan. Sports & Games 429/2 Sand-wedge (formerly ‘blaster’), 36 in. (912 mm.), 56°. |