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changer|ˈtʃeɪndʒə(r)|
Forms: 4 chaungeour, changeour, 4–6 chaunger, 5 chawniore, chaungere, 6– changer.
[ME. changeour, a. OF. changeor (mod.F. changeur):— late L. type *cambiātōr-em; but prob. often directly f. change.]
1. a. One who, or that which, changes anything; see change v. 1, 6.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. viii. xvii. (1495) 325 The mone is chaunger of the ayre. 1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 52 Though chaunge be no robbry..Yet shall that chaunge rob the chaunger of his wit. 1677Gale Crt. Gentiles II. iv. 264 The same thing cannot be the changer and changed. 1854W. Waterworth Anglicanism 84 Reformers..and changers in matters of religion. 1881P. Brooks Candle of Lord 192 Christ, the changer of hearts.
b. spec. A mechanism designed to change the records on a record player. In full record changer.
1930Gramophone Mar. 474/2 A novel, and yet efficient, automatic record changer is on view on the Cowley stand... It will change up to six records, either 10 in. or 12 in. 1940Ibid. Dec. 163/2 The automatic record changer is of the usual eight record capacity type... This changer is fitted with a spring loaded spindle to minimise the chances of record slip. 1967Times Rev. Industry June 48/1 A year earlier [1951] BSR introduced its first automatic changer unit designed to handle LPs, 45s and 78s. Technically this new machine was a considerable advance on the heavyweight changers which had ground and scraped their way through stacks of 78s for more than a decade.
†2. One who changes money, a money-changer.
c1340Cursor M. 14732 (Trin.) Þe chaungeours [Cott. Gött. moneurs; Fairf. moneyers] for þat gilt Her bordes [iesus] ouer kest. 1382Wyclif Matt. xxi. 12 He turnyde vpsadoun the bordis of chaungeris. 1474Caxton Chesse iii. iv. (1860) 8 b, The chaungers, and they that lene money. 1611Bible John ii. 14 Found in the Temple..the changers of money, sitting..Powred out the changers money.
3. One who changes or varies; an inconstant person. rare.
a1605Montgomerie Sonn. lxx, To be thy chiftanes changers ay thou chuisis. 1611Bible Prov. xxiv. 21 Medle not with them that are giuen to change [marg. Heb. changers].
4. Sc. One who keeps a change-house.
1876Grant Burgh Sch. Scotl. ii. v. 177 foot-n., In 1673 the Council of Paisley..ordain that changers selling drink to scholars shall pay {pstlg}10. |