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▪ I. caller, n.|ˈkɔːlə(r)|
[f. call v. + -er1.]
One who calls, in various senses of the vb.; esp.
1. a. One who cries aloud, or proclaims. b. One who invokes, summons, or exhorts in a loud voice. †c. A petitioner, an appellant, one who challenges. d. The convener of a meeting.
c1502J. Younge in Leland Collect. (1774) IV. 288 The King called them before hym, and demaunded the Cause of ther Difference. The Caller sayd, Syre, he hath taken from me my Lady Paramour. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 823/1 Callers vppon the name of God. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Matt. xx. 98 We be bounde to the caller for this also. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 907/1 The caller of the court was one Cooke of Winchester. 1635Vestry Bks. (Surtees) 98 Item to the caller in the court, 4d. 1841Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) VI. 246 Letting the callers of the meeting have their way. 1866W. R. King Sportsman in Canada iii. 52 [Moose-hunting] The caller..retires, with a reserve gun, to the rear of the sportsman.
e. One who announces the changes of steps during a dance. Also caller-out. orig. and chiefly U.S.
1882Century Mag. Oct. 878/2 The ‘caller-out’..not only calls out the figures, but explains them at length to the ignorant, sometimes accompanying them through the performance. 1931Amer. Speech VII. 50 To the ‘fiddlin'’ for the square dances the ‘caller’ sing-songs: All to your places, straighten up your faces, Join eight hands and circle left. 1938Times 10 Jan. 10/4 The ‘caller’..is a figure still prominent in American ‘play-parties’. 1966Melody Maker 7 May 18/1 (Advt.), Beckenham Ballrooms are interested in commencing a Country Style evening every Tuesday. They need a caller and musicians.
f. One who makes a call on a telephone. Also caller-up.
1898Daily News 6 June 6/2 The caller-up knowing whether he is through or not by the ringing or not ringing of his bell. 1899Post Office Guide July 533 If a deposit has been made by the caller in the first instance to cover the fee for the second period of three minutes. 1954K. Amis Lucky Jim 95 Your second three minutes are up, caller. 1959[see callee].
g. A man or boy employed to knock up men for duty, esp. the members of a railway staff. Also caller-up.
1898H. E. Hamblen Gen. Manager's Story 72 The caller made his rounds with orders to call the first man he found off duty. 1899R. Whiteing No. 5 John St. vi. 47 The caller-up begins his rounds with the dawn. 1935A. J. Cronin Stars look Down i. viii. 65 Next morning the caller woke him, at two o'clock he was in the pit working the early fore shift.
2. One who pays a short or complimentary visit. (The chief current sense.)
1786F. Burney Diary (1854) III. 30 Making him keep off all callers, by telling them I am dressing for the Queen. 1812Chalmers Lett. in Life (1851) I. 296 We have had a flow of forenoon callers. 1865Lond. Rev. 23 Dec. 662/1 The most successful caller, i.e. the caller who finds no one at home.
3. Sc. A driver.
c1450Henryson Mor. Fab. 73 The caller cryed: How, haike vpon hight. 1805Barry Orkney Isl. 447 (Jam.) The caller goes before the beasts backward with a whip.
4. Of other than persons:
a. fig. A thing which calls.
b. A call-bird, a decoy-bird.
1607Hieron Wks. I. 308 The sight of it is rather a common caller vpon him to bee faithfull to him. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. II. s.v. Lark, The Way of taking Larks is with Nets..the Callers are set upon the Ground.
5. With advbs., as caller away, caller off, caller on, etc.
1555Eden Decades W. Ind. ii. vii. (Arb.) 127 My importunate caulers on. 1628Earle Microcosm. lxvi. 142 His..caller away is his study. 1721St. German's Doctor & Stud. 295 Callers on to have that point reformed. 1878F. Williams Midl. Railw. 642 The ‘caller-off’ shouts out..the name.
▸ caller display n. Telecomm. (chiefly Brit.) = caller identification n. at Additions.
1990Computerworld 19 Mar. 58/3 Enough bandwidth to combine several services—such as voice, high-speed facsimile and *caller display—on one dial-up line. 2004Sun (Nexis) 23 Apr. The next day she phoned me at work and the caller display showed she was not phoning from home.
▸ caller ID n. Telecomm. (orig. U.S.) a facility identifying and displaying the telephone number (and sometimes other details) of an incoming call.
1985Proc. IEEE Global Telecommunications Conf. 1 316/1 *Caller ID..automatically sends the telephone number of incoming calls over the customer's line to be displayed on a separate customer-owned..device or possible integrated telephone set. 2003G. Joseph Big Smoke xxiv. 222 Ditton cursed himself for not having a landline phone with caller ID.
▸ caller identification n. Telecomm. (orig. U.S.) = caller ID n. at Additions.
1969New (Van Nuys, Calif.) 18 July (East Valley ed.) 4 a/2 An automatic *caller identification system..would make it possible for an emergency dispatcher to have the caller's phone number, address and proper jurisdiction flashed on a television-type screen. 1982Financial Times (Nexis) 13 Apr. iii. p. iii, Digital exchanges are much more reliable, flexible and versatile, offering facilities like automatic call-back, conference calls and caller identification. 2002N. Tosches In Hand of Dante 303, I buy one of those caller-identification devices, and I begin to call back and hang up on the numbers that appear.
▪ II. caller, a. Sc. and north. dial.|ˈkɑːlər|
Forms: 4 caloure, 5–6 callour, 8 calour, ? callar, 8– caller, cauler, (9 cawler, cauller, calor).
[prob. Sc. form of calver, q.v. Cf. siller from silver, etc.
It has generally been assumed to be derived in some way from stem of OTeut. kal-an to be cold. But this does not account for the form; nor does it yield the required sense, which in earlier times was not connected with cold: ‘callour prey’, recens præda, might be still warm.]
1. ‘Fresh; as opposed to what is beginning to corrupt’ (Jam.); without taint of decomposition; said of the flesh of animals used for food, esp. fish (which were specially liable to decay); ‘as fresh as when taken out of the water’.
c1375? Barbour St. Cosmas & Damian 360 In þe kirk⁓ȝard ȝestrevene wes lad Ane Ethiope, & ȝet his flesche Is caloure Inucht & als fres. c1450Henryson Mor. Fab. 2126 in Anglia IX, Ane side of salmond, as it wair, And callour. 1513Douglas æneis vii. xiii. 110 The recent spreith and fresche and callour pray. [Cf.1536Bellenden Descr. Alb. xi. (1821) I. p. xliii. Quhen the salmondis faillis thair loup, thay fall callour in the said [boiling] caldrounis, and ar than maist delitious to the mouth. ]1768Ross Helenore 6 She..was..As clear and calour as a water trout. 1862Macm. Mag. Oct. 501 The Newhaven fish-wife..shouting ‘Caller herrings!’ or ‘Wha'll buy my caller cod?’
2. Of air, water, etc.: Fresh and cool; well-aired.
1513Douglas æneis vii. Prol. 87 The callour air, penetrative and puire. a1600Hume in Sibbald Sc. Poetry III. 387 (Jam.) The rivers fresh, the callar streams. 1768Ross Helenore 77 Behind the door a calour heather bed. 1816Scott Antiq. xxi, ‘Queer tirlie-wirlie holes that..keep the stair as caller as a kail-blade.’ 1884Good Wds. May 326/1 You ha'e the caller air, the caller earth; an' they're aye healthy. |